examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic …. To evaluate the impact of the import ban on air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our …

The COVID-19 virus, also known as the coronavirus, is currently spreading around the world. While a growing literature … suggests that exposure to pollution can cause respiratory illness and increase deaths among the elderly, little is known about … whether increases in pollution could cause additional or more severe infections from COVID-19, which typically manifests as a …

distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods … with rich cellular tracking and high frequency air pollution data. We find that state and U.S. county safer … range from $7 billion to $24 billion while the benefits from reduced pollution could range from $650 million to $13 …

Time scarcity is one of the strongest correlates of fast food consumption. To estimate the causal effect of time lost … on food choice, we match daily store-specific foot traffic data traced via smartphones to plausibly exogenous shocks in … results imply a net reduction in healthy food store choice due to time lost. …

those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …

In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality. …

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 …