Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and … air pollution regulations were effective at reducing ambient concentrations of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and … nitrogen dioxide. The most successful air pollution regulation is associated with a modest and statistically insignificant …

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 …

empirical investigations. We apply our framework to findings related to the economic impact of air pollution, deforestation, and …

Do US air pollution offset markets disproportionately relocate pollution to or from low-income or minority communities … plants. We find little association of offset prices or offset-induced movements in pollution with the share of a community …

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …

This paper estimates an augmented measure of national output inclusive of environmental pollution damage in the United … States economy over a 60-year period. The paper reports two primary findings. First, air pollution intensity declined … precipitously from the 1950s to the modern era. Air pollution damage comprised roughly 30 percent of output in the post WWII economy …

Moderate effects of pollution on health may exert an important influence on labor market decisions. We exploit … exogenous variation in pollution due to the closure of a large refinery in Mexico City to understand how pollution impacts labor … supply. The closure led to an 8 percent decline in pollution in the surrounding neighborhoods. We find that a one percent …

air pollution levels, and (2) what is the impact of modern air pollution levels on infant health? Our setting is … suggest that ambient pollution levels, specifically particulate matter, still have large impacts on weekly infant mortality … rates. Our results also illustrate the importance of weather controls in measuring pollution's impact on infant mortality …

of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce … pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth. While a … handful of studies have documented the impacts of pollution on labor supply, this paper is the first to rigorously assess the …

small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air … relation to the environment, because services in general contribute relatively little to overall pollution, and those …