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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of...
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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 …. Using an instrumental variable constructed from ozone pollution of upwind nearby cities, we find that a one …
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We use the American Community Survey (ACS) to investigate the extent to which college major decisions were affected during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM fields, as well as the heterogeneity by gender, race/ethnicity and combinations of race/ethnicity...
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Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) have led to school closures. In mid-April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reported that 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the...
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.e., those with the highest scores of Machiavellianism are most likely to be managers. It also suggests that the direction of …
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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 …
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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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This paper investigates the impacts of COVID-19 safer-at-home polices on collisions and pollution. We find that … severe collisions. For pollution, we find particulate matter concentration levels approximately 1.5µg/m3 lower during the … period of a safer-at-home order, representing a 25% reduction. We document a similar reduction in air pollution following the …
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We study how income shock affect due to weather shock causally impacts the birth outcomes. We selected households depended directly on agriculture due to their extreme vulnerability to temperature and rainfall shocks. We find large efficiency loss attributed to weather shock for major food crops...
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We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations … pollution data at the county-day level with the dates of accidents to show that on average, suspending coal mining reduces local … air pollution by 8%. Changes in the level of coal consumption do not drive this reduction. We also find significant …
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