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indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … countries have relatively high pollution levels …
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novel data, an innovative noise pollution model, and quasi-experimental methods borrowed from environmental economics to … solve this puzzle. We find consistent evidence that vessel noise pollution from international shipping has lowered fertility … and raised the mortality of the SRKW significantly. Had noise pollution remained at its pre-1998 levels, the SRKW …
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The natural environment is central to all aspects of life, but efforts to quantify its influence have been hindered by data availability and measurement constraints. To mitigate some of these challenges, we introduce a new prototype of a microdata infrastructure: the Census Environmental Impacts...
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We study how environmentally-inclined politicians (EIPs), i.e., politicians with prior environment-related working experience, affect local environmental performance in China. Firms located in cities with EIPs have lower levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. The effect is attenuated when the...
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detailed air pollution measurements within Ugandan cities. We find that firms locate on the busiest roads searching for … customer visibility, but in doing so they expose their workers to substantial pollution. This sorting pattern increases profits …
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Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence about how it might harm children's long run outcomes. Using … pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of completed education, and are less …
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The social costs of pollution and climate change hinge critically on humans' ability to adapt. Based on transaction … HSR reduces travelers' exposure to extreme air pollution and temperature by 7% and 10%, leading to substantial health …
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We study the relationship between water nutrient pollution and U.S. agriculture using data between the early 1970s and …
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"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a country drives the creation of new firms. Our focus is on regulations governing entry. We find entry regulations hamper entry, especially in industries that naturally should have...
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We analyze a 1960-96 panel of OECD countries to explain why the US moved from relatively high to relatively low unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market institutions explain a modest portion of this change, the...
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