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Technology and the Effectiveness of Regulatory Programs Over Time : Vehicle Emissions and Smog Checks with a Changing Fleet
Sanders, Nicholas - 2017
Personal automobile emissions are a major source of urban air pollution. Many U.S. states control emissions through mandated vehicle inspections and repairs. But there is little empirical evidence directly linking mandated inspections, maintenance, and local air pollution levels. To test for a...
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Stoking the Fires? Co2 Emissions and Economic Growth
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Selden, Thomas M. - 2021
Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both greenhouse gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216506
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Technology in the Great Divergence
Clark, Gregory; Feenstra, Robert C. - 2021
In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this divergence was increasing differences in the efficiency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221862
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Stochastic Technical Progress, Nearly Smooth Trends and Distinct Business Cycles
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2022
This paper investigates whether it is possible to entertain simultaneously two attractive views about US GDP. The first … is that long term growth in US GDP is attributable to an empirically plausible specification of random technical progress …. The second is that deviations of GDP from a fitted smooth 'trend' are mostly attributable to shocks that have only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321578
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Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve
Harbaugh, William T.; Levinson, Arik; Wilson, David - 2021
This paper uses an updated and revised panel data set on ambient air pollution in cities world-wide to examine the robustness of the evidence for the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between national income and pollution. We test the sensitivity of the pollution-income relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217925
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Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions : Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2012
In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes account of the generation mix within interconnected electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099410
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Up in Smoke : the Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107019
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Can a Unilateral Carbon Tax Reduce Emissions Elsewhere?
Elliott, Joshua - 2013
One country that tries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may fear that other countries get a competitive advantage and increase emissions ("leakage"). Estimates from computable general equilibrium (CGE) models such as Elliott et al (2010a,b) indicate that 15% to 25% of abatement might be offset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085118
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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the Nox Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Deschenes, Olivier - 2014
Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper is a large US emissions cap and trade market - the NOx...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065730
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Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
The geographical location of economic activity within the United States has important implications for carbon mitigation. If households clustered in California's cities rather than in more humid southern cities such as Memphis and Houston, then the average household carbon footprint would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069688