depletion? How does globalization affect air and water pollution? Do trade and investment create a race to the bottom in … international trade and the environment with a focus on recent work and methods. We discuss the literature linking trade to local …

between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in … the form of residential sorting, can lead to non-random assignment of pollution, economists have employed a wide range of … quasi-experimental techniques to develop causal estimates of the effect of pollution. Second, economic research has placed a …

: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …

Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and … nitrogen dioxide. The most successful air pollution regulation is associated with a modest and statistically insignificant …

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …

pollution issues. Based on a principal-agent framework, we present evidence consistent with the hypothesis that both the central …