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(Re)scheduling Pollution Exposure : The Case of Surgery Schedules and Patient Mortality

Huang, Jialin; Xing, Jianwei; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

inpatient surgery records from a major city in China, we track post-surgery survival for over 1 million patients, and document a …

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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program

Mansur, Erin T. - 2019

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a counterfactual command-and-control policy. We develop a normatively significant metric with which to rank the various distributions in a manner consistent with an explicit...

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From Fog to Smog : the Value of Pollution Information

Barwick, Panle Jia - 2019

During 2013-2014, China launched a nationwide, real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program, a watershed … exploiting its staggered implementation across cities. The program has transformed the landscape of China's environmental … pollution issues. These transformations, in turn, triggered a cascade of household behavioral changes, including increases in …

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Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation

Holland, Stephen P. - 2018

We determine the change in air pollution damages from U.S. power plant emissions over 2010 to 2017. Annual damages fell from $245 billion to $133 billion over this period, with most of the decline occurring in the East. Decomposition shows that changes in emissions rates reduced damages by $63...

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Conservation Co-Benefits from Air Pollution Regulation : Evidence from Birds

Liang, Yuanning - 2020

Massive wildlife losses over the past 50 years have brought new urgency to identifying both the drivers of population decline and potential solutions. We provide the first large-scale evidence that air pollution, specifically ozone, is associated with declines in bird abundance in the United...

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Expected Health Effects of Reduced Air Pollution from COVID-19 Social Distancing

Cicala, Steve - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in stay-at-home policies and other social distancing behaviors in the United States in spring of 2020. This paper examines the impact that these actions had on emissions and expected health effects through reduced personal vehicle travel and electricity...

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What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California's NOx Trading Program

Fowlie, Meredith - 2009

A perceived advantage of cap-and-trade programs over more prescriptive environmental regulation is that enhanced compliance flexibility and cost effectiveness can make more stringent emissions reductions politically feasible. However, increased compliance flexibility can also result in an...

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What's Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring : Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors

Mu, Yingfei; Rubin, Edward; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Regulators often rely on self-reported data to determine compliance. Tolerance for missingness in self-monitoring data may create incentives for local agents to strategically decide when (not) to monitor regulated activities. This paper builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip...

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Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles?

Holland, Stephen P. - 2015

Electric vehicles offer the promise of reduced environmental externalities relative to their gasoline counterparts. We combine a theoretical discrete-choice model of new vehicle purchases, an econometric analysis of the marginal emissions from electricity, and the AP2 air pollution model to...

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Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions : Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 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...

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