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offsets that compensate for emissions. To estimate demand for carbon mitigation, I randomize whether the delivery service …
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The existence of an environmental limit in the Solow-Swan economy changes the nature of economic growth, but does not preclude it. When atmospheric greenhouse gases reach a predetermined absolute threshold, further growth requires a permanently expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. If...
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Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from …
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unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A key finding is that these forces alone may suffice to generate an urban … emissions in the process of agglomeration and redispersion. Another key result is that agglomeration per se is typically not a … boon for the environment, as total emissions in the total city system are likely to rise. …
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governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …
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rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity …
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Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...
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Climate change is sometimes viewed as the most serious problem facing modern society. The science behind anthropogenic global warming has been understood for more than half a century. Yet relatively few economists work on topics related to climate change. What explains this (apparent) lack of...
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ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …
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