We conduct the first study on the impacts of prenatal exposure to a uniquely identified large polluter, a coal …

, switching to low- sulfur coal, or shifting output between generating plants with different emissions. The cost of achieving a …

In recent years, the share of U.S electricity generated by coal has fallen from nearly 50% to 33%. The costs of this … transition are spatially concentrated, and mining states have already lost income due to the reduced demand for coal. Coal states … states and counties with substantial mining activity are more likely to be coal fired and to purchase more within political …

studying climate damage. Our model features coal, oil, and gas, each extracted subject to increasing costs, a clean energy …

approach to data from British cities for 1851-1911. I show that local industrial coal use substantially reduced long-run city … employment growth over this period. Moreover, a counterfactual analysis suggests that plausible improvements in coal use …

this relationship in 1900. Growing industrial coal use from 1851-1900 reduced life expectancy by at least 0.57 years. A …

. Our focus is on quantifying short-term coal-to-gas switching decisions by different types of electric power plants in …