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Impacts of the Clean Air Act on the power sector from 1938-1994: anticipation and adaptation
Clay, Karen; Jha, Akshaya; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, … - 2021
The passage of landmark government regulation is often the culmination of evolving social pressure and incremental … policy change. During this process, firms may preemptively adjust behavior in anticipation of impending regulation, making it … 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA) on the power sector. This unique long panel provides us an extended pre-regulation benchmark …
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Keep your clunker in the suburb : Low Emission Zones and adoption of green vehicles
Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which …
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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19
Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic improve global air quality? : new cross-national evidence on its unintended consequences
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2020
Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on the causal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution. We assemble a rich database consisting of daily,...
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Impact of the Clean Air Act on air pollution and infant health : evidence from South Korea
Lee, Soohyung; Yoo, Heesun; Nam, Minhyuk - 2018
This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical variations in the adoption of the Act between 2003 and 2006. During this period, the Clean Air...
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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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Air pollution and infant mortality : evidence from the expansion of natural gas infrastructure
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2013
One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
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The effects of cash for clunkers on local air quality
Helm, Ines; Koch, Nikolas; Rohlf, Alexander - 2023
We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...
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The morbidity costs of air pollution through the lens of health spending in China
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xun; Liu, Yuehua; Zhao, Xintong; Chen, Xi - 2022
This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health spending data from a basic medical insurance program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV)...
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Promoting equity through equitable risk tradeoffs
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip - 2022
The impact and economic merits of President Biden's Executive Order 13985 on equity depend on how the executive order is implemented. While policy discussion to date has focused on equitable outcomes, we propose framing risk equity policies in terms of equitable risk tradeoff rates based on six...
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