28%. Further, fracking decreased local air pollution by an average of 4%. We show that benefits vary geographically; air …This paper estimates indirect benefits of improved air quality induced by hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking". The … pollution levels decreased by 35% in the most affected region. Back of the envelope calculations imply accumulated health …

Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production …

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two …-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii) because public goods, such as environmental attributes, exhibit …

(agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy … indicative estimates of the external costs of energy subsidies, as manifested in congestion and pollution. Our estimates using …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

in Germany over a nineteen-year period and exploit plausibly exogenous variation in ambient air pollution within counties …