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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Greenstone, Michael - 2011
Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. The … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and …
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 2021
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture
Gollin, Douglas - 2019
Standard measures of productivity display enormous dispersion across farms in Africa. Crop yields and input intensities appear to vary greatly, seemingly in conflict with a model of efficient allocation across farms. In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for distinguishing between...
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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …
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Misallocation and Capital Market Integration : Evidence from India
Bau, Natalie; Matray, Adrien - 2022
We show that foreign capital liberalization reduces capital misallocation and increases aggregate productivity in India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406827
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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime
Das, Satadru - 2016
India started the implementation of a rural public works program in 2006, covering all districts of the country within …
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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. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...
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What are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?
Parry, Ian W. H. - 2010
This paper develops an analytical model to quantify the costs and distributional effects of various fiscal options for allocating the (large) rents created under prospective cap-and-trade programs to reduce domestic, energy-related CO2 emissions. The trade-off between cost effectiveness and...
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Regulation Versus Taxation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
We study which policy tool and at what level a majority chooses in order to reduce activities with negative externalities. We consider three instruments: a rule, that sets an upper limit to the activity which produces the negative externality, a quota that forces a proportional reduction of the...
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