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 …

Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical … measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of … Methods (PPMs), provided the measures do not discriminate among producer countries. People care about both the environment and …

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on …

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core … explanations for the regions poor performance. If African countries can establish an institutional environment that enables …

attributes such as local air pollution and green space. A city's greenness is a function of both its natural beauty and is an …