This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

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 …

impact of lead exposure on a critical human function with societal implications – fertility. To provide causal estimates of … the effect of lead on fertility, we use two sets of instruments: i) the interaction of the timing of implementation of … System Plan for the cross sectional data. We find that reductions in airborne lead between 1978 and 1988 increased fertility …

This is the first study that uses a direct measure of skyglow, an important aspect of light pollution, to examine its … add to the literature on the impact of in utero and early-life exposure to pollution, which thus far has focused primarily … on air pollution.The unique feature of our identification strategy to determine a causal effect is the application of …

between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first marriage of men and women. Within a simple two … single women in equilibrium. Using an extended version of the model to a finite number of periods and fertility data, I show …

, these results have important implications for marriage rates, fertility, housing markets and financial markets …

While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …