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 …

salience of climate change-related issues, affect people's support for policies to reduce emissions. We additionally test …

ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three … accompanied by an increase in income per capita of nearly 7% while still lowering carbon emissions. In the second part of our …

information on carbon emissions and consumption patterns (which is needed for quantifying carbon-tax burdens), with income data …

Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic … received less attention is education quality. If technological change that reduces the reliance of production on emissions is … enhance the effect of carbon pricing on technological change and subsequently emissions. A general equilibrium, overlapping …