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outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And …, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however …
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In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...
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Policy has increasingly shifted towards economic incentives and liability attenuation for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, but little is known about the effectiveness of such policies. An example of such legislation is State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs), which were...
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This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
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pollution on health and the private decision of each working-age agent to improve her health are taken into account. Especially … sensitive to pollution, the weight of health in preferences is high, the polluting capacity of the production technology is high …
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