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 …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … 1990 and 2008. Third, environmental regulation explains 75 percent or more of the observed reduction in pollution emissions … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then …

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 …

This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2 …

's economic costs including output loss and wage inequity, and enhances its effect on emissions reduction. The implication is that …

births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the … exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of …

Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit … - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural experiment to measure the health impact of car pollution. Using the … at all pollution levels and across the entire socioeconomic spectrum …

28%. Further, fracking decreased local air pollution by an average of 4%. We show that benefits vary geographically; air … pollution levels decreased by 35% in the most affected region. Back of the envelope calculations imply accumulated health …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …