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Self-Protection Investment Exacerbates Air Pollution Exposure Inequality in Urban China
Zheng, Siqi - 2015
Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457366
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Pollution Control Innovations and the Clean Air Act of 1990
Popp, David - 2001
Although economists cite potential gains from induced innovation as an advantage of using market-based mechanisms to protect the environment, counts of patents related to flue gas desulfurization units ('scrubbers') peaked before trading of sulfur dioxide (SO2) permits began. This paper uses...
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Who Counts in Evaluating the Effects of Air Pollution Policies on Households? Non-Market Valuation in the Presence of Dependencies
Evans, Mary F. - 2009
relationships among household members poses challenges for benefit estimation since it is unlikely that the conditions necessary for … recovering the underlying individual preferences from household choices are satisfied in this setting. We propose a conceptual … relationships for household members of different ages to test the implications of our conceptual model. Respondents' choices take …
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Policy Uncertainty Reduces Green Investment
Wang, Mengyu; Wurgler, Jeffrey; Zhang, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...
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Looking Back at Fifty Years of the Clean Air Act
Aldy, Joseph E. - 2020
Since 1970, transportation, power generation, and manufacturing have dramatically transformed as air pollutant emissions have fallen significantly. To evaluate the causal impacts of the Clean Air Act on these changes, we synthesize and review retrospective analyses of air quality regulations....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479211
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Bringing Satellite-Based Air Quality Estimates Down to Earth
Fowlie, Meredith - 2019
We use state-of-the-art, satellite-based PM2.5 estimates to assess the extent to which the EPA's existing, monitor-based measurements over- or under-estimate true exposure to PM2.5 pollution. Treating satellite-based estimates as truth implies a substantial number of "policy...
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando - 2012
We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
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The Impact of the Clean Air Act on Particulate Matter in the 1970s
Cropper, Maureen L.; Muller, Nicholas Z.; Park, Yongjoon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine whether counties designated as out of attainment with the NAAQS under the 1970 CAA experienced larger reductions in TSP during the 1970s than attainment counties. We answer this question using the official designation of nonattainment status which, between 1972 and 1978, was by Air...
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Who Pays a Price on Carbon?
Grainger, Corbett A. - 2009
-capita basis a carbon price is much more regressive than calculations at the household level. We discuss policy options to offset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463410
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Gray Matters : Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2014
This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile. We rely on comparisons across siblings which address concerns about locational sorting and all other time-invariant family characteristics that can lead to endogenous exposure to poor...
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