: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …

between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in … the form of residential sorting, can lead to non-random assignment of pollution, economists have employed a wide range of … quasi-experimental techniques to develop causal estimates of the effect of pollution. Second, economic research has placed a …

Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world …. Countries with initially higher mortality from infectious diseases experienced greater increases in life expectancy, population … period, a faster increase in population made social conflict more likely, probably because it increased competition for …

The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only limited understanding …

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the … evolution of the trade and environment issue. Developments seem likely to be driven in the next few years as much by factors …

implications of an approach to ranking sequences of consumption and environment over time that place weight both on the … from consumption and environment …

finance a more sustainable world. While blended finance holds the promise of being catalytic in mobilizing vast amounts of …

environment since Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger published their now seminal working paper examining the potential environmental …

This article proposes and evaluates four hypotheses about US pollution and environmental policy over the last half … century. First, air and water pollution have declined substantially, although greenhouse gas emissions have not. Second …, environmental policy explains a large share of these trends. Third, much of the regulation of air and drinking water pollution has …