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Convergence in total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2023

This paper examines convergence patterns in total greenhouse gas emissions across 114 countries from 1990 to 2019. Prior research has largely focused on one representative greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide emissions, but our goal is to broaden the study. We use the club convergence test to contrast...

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Are greenhouse gas emissions converging in Latin America?

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2022

This paper investigates greenhouse gas emissions convergence among twenty Latin American countries, for the period 1970 to 2015. To that end, we use the Phillips-Sul methodology to examine whether these countries have followed an absolute convergence process or, whether there has been a club...

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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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Happiness in the air : how does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being?

Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2017

Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health...

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The beneficial impacts of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2020

Little evidence currently exists on the effects of COVID-19 on air quality in poorer countries, where most air pollution-linked deaths occur. We offer the first study that examines the pandemic’s impacts on improving air quality in Vietnam, a lower-middle income country with worsening air...

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Smog in our brains : gender differences in the impact of exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo; Zhang, Xin - 2017

While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written about its effects on cognitive performance for the whole population. This paper studies the effects of contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive...

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Smog, cognition and real-world decision making

Chen, Xi - 2018

Cognitive functioning is critical as in our daily life a host of real-world complex decisions in highstakes markets … and epidemiologic evidence linking air pollution, cognition performance and real-world decision making, we first …, and educational attainment. We further extend to a review of real-world decision making that has been found to be affected …

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On the effects of COVID-19 safer-at-home policies on social distancing, car crashes and pollution

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Wright, Taylor - 2021

This paper investigates the impacts of COVID-19 safer-at-home polices on collisions and pollution. We find that statewide safer-at-home policies lead to a 20% reduction in vehicular collisions and that the effect is entirely driven by less severe collisions. For pollution, we find particulate...

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Productivity loss amid invisible pollution

Wang, Chunchao; Lin, Qianqian; Qiu, Yun - 2020

Ground-level ozone is a continuing problem worldwide, but research on the influences of ozone pollution on labour productivity in developing countries is insufficient. We investigate the effect of ozone pollution on outdoor worker productivity in the service sector using a unique panel dataset...

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Air pollution and mortality impacts of coal mining : evidence from coalmine accidents in China

Chu, Yin; Holladay, J. Scott; Qiu, Yun; Tian, Xian-Liang; … - 2023

We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations mandate that coal mining be suspended if a mine experiences an accident with 10 or more fatalities. We use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to compare counties with...

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