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This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series data (1971-2006) from China (an emerging market), Korea (a newly industrialized country), and...
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consequences of health shocks induced by air pollution in a megacity in the developing world: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Using daily data … practice of using health outcomes unrelated to pollution as "placebo tests" in studies on the effects of air pollution might be … pollution is also ubiquitous, but also happens in deprived areas in the developed world …
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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
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The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...
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When examining the impacts of exposure to air pollution on health outcomes, researchers usually carry out "placebo … conditions seemingly unrelated to air pollution. In this study, we argue that one should proceed with caution when running such … falsification tests. If healthcare infrastructure is limited, when we observe health shocks such as those driven by air pollution …
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Existing climate-economy models use aggregate damage functions to model the effects of climate change. This approach assumes climate change has equal impacts on the productivity of firms that produce consumption and investment goods or services. We show the split between damage to consumption...
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and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a … pollution on health. The paper then turns to papers that explicitly consider the trade-offs between production benefits and … pollution disamenities across space and over time. The paper ends with a discussion of opportunities for future work on coal and …
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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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Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...
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This paper reviews the effect of environmental disasters on migration. Although there is an increase of environmental disasters and migration over the past years, the relationship is complex. While some authors find that environmental disasters increase migration, others show that they have only...
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