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Reducing Emissions and Air Pollution from the Informal Sector : Evidence from Bangladesh
Brooks, Nina R. - 2024
We present results from a randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh that introduced operational practices to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions in 276 "zigzag" brick kilns. 65% of intervention kilns adopted the improved practices. Treatment assignment reduced energy use by 10.3%...
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Uncharted Waters : Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation
Hansen-Lewis, Jamie; Marcus, Michelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Maritime shipping emits as much fine particulate matter as half of global road traffic. We are the first to measure the consequences of US maritime emissions standards on air quality, human health, racial exposure disparities, and behavior. The introduction of US maritime emissions control areas...
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The IPCC Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) : Explained, Evaluated, Replaced
Welch, Ivo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) are perhaps the most influential economic policy analyses today. My paper evaluates their development, natural associations, logical consequences, and economic identification. All five SSP baseline scenarios are predicting scenarios that historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512032
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando - 2012
the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460327
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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...
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Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment
Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421193
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases … (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would … lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research, suggests that has not happened. But what about the converse fear? Are …
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Regulating Mismeasured Pollution : Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy
Lyubich, Eva - 2018
This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453485
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Economic Geography and the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation
Hollingsworth, Alex; Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl T.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the efficiency and distributional impacts of the leading air quality regulation in the United States: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). We link our economic model to an integrated assessment model for air pollutants which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172144
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The Gas Trap : Outcompeting Coal vs. Renewables
Harstad, Bård; Holtsmark, Katinka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We analyze a fundamental dilemma and time-inconsistency problem facing a climate coalition producing natural gas. In the short term, it is tempting to export more to outcompete coal. When this policy is anticipated, however, investments in renewables fall and emissions ultimately increase. When...
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