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Why are Pollution Damages Lower in Developed Countries? Insights from High-Income, High-Particulate Matter Hong Kong
Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay - 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
Charlot, Olivier - 2011
formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring …
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries Since 1960
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
of regulation and is almost exclusively based on international cross-section data for the post-1995 period. This paper …
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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
Bennett, John - 2006
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to quot;excessivequot; entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a...
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Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World : Evidence from Differential Enforcement
Almeida, Rita - 2015
This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation in the enforcement of the labor codes in countries with very different de jure firing...
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Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries
Chung, Yeimin - 2013
This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained from the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger (ML) productivity growth index. MML has two...
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
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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Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?
Garg, Teevrat - 2020
Why do damages from changes in environmental quality differ across and within countries? Causal investigation of this question has been challenging because differences may stem from heterogeneity in cumulative exposure or differences in socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the...
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The Spillover Effects of Pollution : How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom
Gazze, Ludovica - 2020
Evidence shows that lead-exposed children are more disruptive and have lower achievement. However, we know less about how lead-exposed children affect the learning environment of their classroom peers. We estimate these spillover effects using new data on children's blood lead levels (BLLs)...
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