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Ecosystems and Human Health: The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia

Garg, Teevrat - 2019

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 Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies

Garg, Teevrat; Shenoy, Ajay - 2020

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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Health Shocks under Hospital Capacity Constraint: Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Guidetti, Bruna; Pereda, Paula; Severnini, Edson R. - 2020

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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Low, High and Super Congestion of an Open-Access Natural Resource: The Autarky Case

Schiff, Maurice - 2020

Production of commodities based on open-access renewable natural resources (NR) has usually been examined under "low" congestion (LC) – where MC AC and both increase with output. I identify two additional congestion categories, "high" (HC) and "super" (SC) congestion – where AC is...

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"Placebo Tests" for the Impacts of Air Pollution on Health: The Challenge of Limited Healthcare Infrastructure

Guidetti, Bruna; Pereda, Paula; Severnini, Edson R. - 2021

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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Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing

Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2021

Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...

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For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality

Antman, Francisca M. - 2022

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...

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A Soul's View of the Optimal Population Problem

de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021

A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...

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Low, High and Super Congestion of a Renewable Natural Resource under Autarky and Trade

Schiff, Maurice - 2021

Numerous developing economies depend vitally on renewable natural-resource (NR)-based commodities. This study develops a general equilibrium model to examine the steady-state impact of changes in a small economy's NR congestion under open access and optimal regulation. This issue has often been...

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Why Are Pollution Damages Lower in Developed Countries? Insights from High-Income, High-Particulate Matter Hong Kong

Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay - 2021

Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …

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