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Charging NOx Emitters for Health Damages : An Exploratory Analysis
Mauzerall, Denise - 2004
We present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States. We use a regional atmospheric model of the eastern United States, the Comprehensive...
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The Changing Nature of Pollution, Income, and Environmental Inequality in the United States
Colmer, Jonathan; Qin, Suvy; Voorheis, John; Walker, W. Reed - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
particulate (PM2.5) exposure to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap over the past 40 years. In doing so …-preserving compression in the overall pollution distribution and (2) changes that stem from a reordering of Black and White households within … the pollution distribution. We find a significant narrowing of the Black-White PM2.5 exposure gap over this time period …
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Inaccurate age and sex data in the Census PUMS files : Evidence and Implications
Alexander, J. Trent - 2010
We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462949
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Firm Heterogeneity in Consumption Baskets : Evidence from Home and Store Scanner Data
Faber, Benjamin - 2017
inequality. This paper explores the implications for household price indices across the income distribution. Using detailed … matched US home and store scanner microdata, we present evidence that rich and poor households source their consumption from … different parts of the firm size distribution within disaggregated product groups. We use the microdata to examine alternative …
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Does Foreign Entry Spur Innovation?
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457154
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Sequential Markets, Market Power and Arbitrage
Ito, Koichiro - 2014
model predictions using micro-data from the Iberian electricity market. We show that the observed price differences and firm …
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Micro Data and Macro Technology
Oberfield, Ezra - 2014
We develop a framework to estimate the aggregate capital-labor elasticity of substitution by aggregating the actions of individual plants, and use it to assess the decline in labor's share of income in the US manufacturing sector. The aggregate elasticity reflects substitution within plants and...
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Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?
Nanda, Ramana - 2014
We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, we also show that because a sufficient number of R&D intensive firms...
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Privacy and Data-Based Research
Heffetz, Ori - 2013
What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their …
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Measuring Firm Environmental Performance to Inform Asset Management and Standardized Disclosure
Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Investing according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is gaining momentum. Most environmental performance indices focus only on the tonnage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. This paper proposes an index covering eight pollutants expressed in monetary damage. Inclusion of...
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