This paper estimates the extent to which changing environmental standards have altered patterns of international … U.S. states. This approach has the advantage that data on environmental stringency in U.S. states are more comparable …-to-measure dimensions. Second, our measure of environmental stringency accounts for differences in states' industrial compositions for …

The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution …

Political debates around environmental regulation often center around the effect of policy on jobs. Opponents decry the … and benefits of environmental regulation. In this paper, we discuss how the existing research on jobs and environmental … regulations. And, using an economic model from Hafstead, Williams, and Chen (2018), we evaluate a range of environmental …

This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic … performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five … environmental regulations faced by firms are positively associated with a greater probability of reducing COD emissions; also, there …

This paper analyzes the effects of environmental policy on employment (and unemployment) using a new general … unemployment) is small, even in the short run. An environmental performance standard causes a substantially smaller sectoral shift … that empirical studies of environmental regulation that focus only on regulated firms can be misleading (and those that use …

index of state environmental laws. A significant connection is found: states with more stringent environmental regulation …, gets similar coefficients. This raises the possibility that differences between states other than environmental regulation …

We began this project interested in collecting real-world' insight about how environmental regulation affects the paper … environmental regulation. New mills in states with strict environmental regulations are less likely to employ the more polluting …

motivated taxes and various non-tax environmental policy instruments in terms of their efficiency and distributional impacts …-order importance in the evaluation of environmental policies. Indeed, some of the most important impacts of environmental policies take … environmental taxes. Section 3 analyzes the impacts of environmental tax reforms, concentrating on revenue-neutral policies in which …

literature is used here to describe not only the distributional effects of environmental taxes or subsidies but also the likely … incidence of non-tax regulations, energy efficiency standards, or other environmental mandates. Recent papers find that mandates …