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Antweiler, Werner; Copeland, Brian Richard; Taylor, … - In: The American economic review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 877-908

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Mariani, Fabio - 2009

We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...

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On the Effects of Covid-19 Safer-at-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

Brodeur, Abel - 2020

distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods … with rich cellular tracking and high frequency air pollution data.We find that state and U.S. county safer-at-home policies … range from $7 billion to $24 billion while the benefits from reduced pollution could range from $650 million to $13 …

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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions : New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Bélaïd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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Climate change policy after Kyoto

Metcalf, Gilbert E. (contributor) - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 552-574

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19

Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

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