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Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 2003

We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality improvements induced by the 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). This legislation imposed strict regulations on industrial polluters in nonattainment' counties with TSPs...

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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Deschenes, Olivier - 2012

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...

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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...

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China's War on Pollution : Evidence from the First Five Years

Greenstone, Michael; He, Guojun; Li, Shanjun; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's history of environmental regulation and … pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China …

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What Accounts for the Rising Sophistication of China's Exports?

Wang, Zhi - 2008

different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human …

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Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from China’s War on Air Pollution

Greenstone, Michael - 2020

We examine the introduction of automatic air pollution monitoring, which is a central feature of China's "war on …

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The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity : Evidence from the 1970 & 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufactures

Greenstone, Michael - 2001

This paper estimates the effects of environmental regulations on industrial activity. The analysis is conducted with the most comprehensive data available on both regulations from the Clean Air Act Amendments' division of counties into pollutant-specific nonattainment and attainment categories...

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Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 1998

This study exploits the quasi-random assignment of air pollution changes across counties induced by federally mandated air pollution regulations to identify the impact of particulate matter on property values. Two striking empirical regularities emerge from the analysis. First particulate matter...

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The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality : Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession

Chay, Kenneth Y. - 1999

This study uses sharp, differential air quality changes across sites attributable to geographic variation in the effects of the 1981-82 recession to estimate the relationship between infant mortality and particulates air pollution. It is shown that in the narrow period of 1980-82, there was...

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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...

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