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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463284
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Effects of Air Quality Regulation on in Polluting Industries
Becker, Randy - 1997
This paper examines unintended effects of air quality regulation on decisions of major polluters, using plant data for 1963 to 1992. A key regulatory tool since 1978 is the annual designation of county air quality attainment status, where non-attainment status triggers specific equipment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472654
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460327
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458003
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Keepin' 'em Down on the Farm : Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
Jensen, Robert - 2017
In rural areas of most developing countries, intergenerational coresidence is both widespread and an important determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on the family farm or provide care and assistance around...
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On the Optimal Inflation Rate
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2016
In our incomplete markets economy financial frictions affect the optimal inflation target. Households choose portfolios consisting of risky (uninsurable) capital and money. Money is a bubbly store of value. The market outcome is constrained Pareto inefficient due to a pecuniary externality. Each...
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Correlation, Consumption, Confusion, or Constraints : Why do Poor Children Perform so Poorly?
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. - 2015
The economic and social mobility of a generation may be largely determined by the time it enters school given early developing and persistent gaps in child achievement by family income and the importance of adolescent skill levels for educational attainment and lifetime earnings. After providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457645
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Income Tax Design and the Desirability of Subsidies to Secondary Workers in a Household Model with Joint and Non-Joint Time
Cudmore, Edgar - 2007
In this paper we analyze income tax design in a two member household labor supply model where time spent on consumption … together by the two household members is valued differently from time spent apart. We treat consumption as a non excludable … public good to members of the household; one example would be where all household members or one alone can watch TV. When …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465143