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 …

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 …

This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air …

In this paper we study the effect of urban density on the exposure of city dwellers to air pollution using data from … statistically significant pollution-density elasticity of 0.13. We also assess the health implications of these estimates and find …

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 …