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Carbon rollercoaster : a historical analysis of decarbonization in the United States

Clay, Karen; Jha, Akshaya; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, … - 2025

This paper documents the evolution of US carbon emissions and discusses the main factors that contributed to the historical carbon emissions rollercoaster. We divide the discussion into four periods - up to 1920, 1920-1960, 1960-2005 and after 2005. For each period, we discuss the main drivers...

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The health costs of coal-fired power plants in India

Barrows, Geoffrey; Garg, Teevrat; Jha, Akshaya - 2019

This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase … in coal-fired capacity corresponds to a 14% increase in infant mortality rates in districts near versus far from the … imported coal. The environmental benefits from policy aimed at the power sector are thus likely to be substantially higher if …

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Estimating indirect benefits : fracking, coal and air pollution

Johnsen, Reid; LaRiviere, Jacob; Wolff, Hendrik - 2016

recent increase in natural gas supply led to displacement of coal-fired electricity by cleaner natural gas-fired generation …. Using detailed spatial panel data comprising the near universe of US power plants, we find that coal generation decreased by …

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The impact of offshoring and import competition on firm-level carbon emissions

Leisner, Jonathan; Munch, Jakob Roland; Nielsen, August … - 2023

We use Danish firm-level data to examine the causal link between carbon emissions, offshoring, and import competition. Offshoring reduces firms' emission intensity but increases their production. Import competition reduces firms' production without affecting their emission intensity. For...

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City size, pollution and emission policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2018

This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...

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The effect of renewable energy development on carbon emission reduction : an empirical analysis for the EU-15 countries

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz; Heshmati, Almas; Altmann, Jörn - 2014

The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...

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Low emission zones for better health : evidence from German hospitals

Pestel, Nico; Wozny, Florian - 2019

introduction of new Low Emission Zones across cities in Germany. We use detailed hospitalization data combined with geo …

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Understanding distributional impacts of carbon pricing : insights from comparative analysis

Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donoghue, Cathal; … - 2025

Carbon pricing is becoming increasingly common but raises equity concerns and is frequently perceived as putting higher burdens on the poor than the rich. This chapter discusses the reasons for unequal carbon price burdens across countries and population groups, through the lens of a comparative...

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Can natural gas save lives? : evidence from the deployment of a fuel delivery system in a developing country

Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in …

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Coal, smoke, and death : bituminous coal and American home heating

Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Tarr, Joel A. - 2014

due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality … rates in the U.S. during the mid-20th century. Coal consumption varied considerably during the 20th century due to coal … of confounding factors, we use a triple-differences identification strategy that relies on variation in coal consumption …

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