Has the expansion in exports affected pollution and health outcomes across different prefectures in China in the two …) PollutionExportShock represents the pollution content of export expansion and is measured in pounds of pollutants per worker; (ii … the rest of the world. We find that the pollution content of export affected pollution and mortality. A one standard …

China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

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 …

Moderate effects of pollution on health may exert an important influence on labor market decisions. We exploit … exogenous variation in pollution due to the closure of a large refinery in Mexico City to understand how pollution impacts labor … supply. The closure led to an 8 percent decline in pollution in the surrounding neighborhoods. We find that a one percent …

air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is … suggest that ambient pollution levels, specifically particulate matter, still have large impacts on weekly infant mortality … rates. Our results also illustrate the importance of weather controls in measuring pollution's impact on infant mortality …

of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce … pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth. While a … handful of studies have documented the impacts of pollution on labor supply, this paper is the first to rigorously assess the …

small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air … relation to the environment, because services in general contribute relatively little to overall pollution, and those …

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …

During 2013-2014, China launched a nationwide, real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program, a watershed … exploiting its staggered implementation across cities. The program has transformed the landscape of China's environmental … protection, substantially expanded public access to pollution information, and dramatically increased households' awareness about …