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Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021

measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …

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Trade, Growth and the Environment

Copeland, Brian R.; Taylor, M. Scott - 2022

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …

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Growth, Trade, and Inequality

Grossman, Gene M. - 2014

We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ in ability sort into either a research sector or a manufacturing sector that produces differentiated goods. Each research project generates a new variety of the differentiated...

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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall

Maccini, Sharon - 2010

How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...

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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Sevilla, Jaypee - 2021

Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output

Burke, Marshall - 2019

Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando - 2012

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 …

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Globalization and Dirty Industries : Do Pollution Havens Matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie; de Melo, Jaime - 2021

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on production and international trade flows in five heavily polluting industries for 52 countries over the period 1981-98. A new decomposition of revealed comparative advantage...

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Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon : Background and Results from the Rice-2011 Model

Nordhaus, William D. - 2011

A new and important concept in global warming economics and policy is the social cost of carbon or SCC. This concept represents the economic cost caused by an additional ton of carbon-dioxide emissions or its equivalent. The present study describes the development of the concept as well as its...

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