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Private Deception and the Rise of Public Employment Offices in the United States, 1890 - 1930
Lee, Woong - 2008
At the turn of the 20th century, state and local governments in the United States began to establish public employment offices. These non-profit governmental organizations match job seekers and businesses, one of their main objectives being to protect job seekers from fraudulent activities by...
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Public or Private Production of Food Safety : What Do U.S. Consumers Want?
Smith, V. Kerry - 2010
This paper reports estimates of consumers' preferences for plans to improve food safety. The plans are distinguished based on whether they address the ex ante risk of food borne illness or the ex post effects of the illness. They are also distinguished based on whether they focus on a public...
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Measuring U.S. International Goods and Services Transactions
Baldwin, Robert E.; Kimura, Fukunari - 2021
In order to better capture the close relationship between firms' cross-border trading activities and the sales and purchasing activities of their foreign affiliates, this paper proposes supplementary accounting formats that classify cross-border and foreign affiliate activities on an ownership...
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Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements
Kellenberg, Derek - 2013
Many of the world's environmental problems cross international borders, and to address those problems approximately 1,000 different International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) are in operation today. Most evidence, however suggests that those IEAs are ineffectual, merely ratifying...
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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program
Greenstone, Michael - 2010
Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation … efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on … sites to be cleaned up through the Superfund program to the areas surrounding the 290 sites that narrowly missed qualifying …
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Environmental Costs Paid by the Polluter or the Beneficiary? The Case of Cercla and Superfund
Fullerton, Don; Tsang, Seng-Su - 2021
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 follows the "polluter pays …" principle by placing retroactive liability on responsible firms. Yet this cost is borne by current shareholders who did not … prices. We find: (1) that the increase in commodity prices contributed by current Superfund taxes is only a small fraction of …
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Nimby Taxes Matter : State Taxes and Interstate Hazardous Waste Shipments
Levinson, Arik - 2013
This paper examines the extent to which state taxes have inhibited interstate transport of" hazardous waste for disposal in the United States. It uses panel data from the Toxics Release" Inventory (TRI) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on interstate" shipments of waste, and...
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Suggested Subsidies are Sub-Optimal Unless Combined with an Output Tax
Fullerton, Don; Mohr, Robert D. - 2021
Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing pollution. We take three papers from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management as examples, and we extend them to make an additional important point. In each case,...
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Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
Currie, Janet - 2011
We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a … site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states … Superfund site before cleanup is associated with a 20 to 25% increase in the risk of congenital anomalies …
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Economics of the Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste
Beede, David N.; Bloom, David E. - 2021
This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day. Industrial countries account for a disproportionate share of...
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