This paper presents an overlapping generations model where pollution, private and public healths are all determinants … show that an appropriate fiscal policy may enhance welfare. However, when pollution is heavily harmful for longevity, the …

Some recent empirical contributions have pointed out a significant negative impact of pollution on labor supply. These … impacts have been largely ignored in the theoretical literature, which, instead, focused on the case of pollution effects on … consumption demand. In this paper, we study the short and long-run effects of pollution in a Ramsey model where pollution and …

, pollution lowers the stock of human capital by weakening physical and mental performances, and short-ening the life expectancy … at the end. To capture the impact of pollution on economic growth, we compute the optimal policy in an endogenous growth … model `a la Lucas (1988) and we study the effects of pollution in the short and the long run. …

Empirical evidence support the existence of pollution abatement possibilities at negative costs, the so-called 'no … regulation. An econometric application confirms that marginal pollution abatement cost curves with no-regret options are …

We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution …