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We determine the change in air pollution damages from U.S. power plant emissions over 2010 to 2017. Annual damages fell …
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polices to manage quantities under a pollution tax. Importantly, it can be difficult to know how to evaluate these policies …
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This paper considers the treatment of co-benefits in benefit-cost analysis of federal air quality regulations. Using a comprehensive data set on all major Clean Air Act rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency over the period 1997-2019, we show that (1) co-benefits make up a...
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lockdowns. We investigate the impact of COVID-19 on air pollution in the two largest cities in Taiwan, which were not subject to … countries emerging from lockdowns could likewise result in an increase in air pollution …
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Policies aimed at reducing the harmful effects of air pollution exposure typically focus on areas with high levels of … pollution. However, if a population's vulnerability to air pollution is imperfectly correlated with current pollution levels …, then this approach to air quality regulation may not efficiently target pollution reduction efforts. We examine the …
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decline and potential solutions. We provide the first large-scale evidence that air pollution, specifically ozone, is … associated with declines in bird abundance in the United States. We show that an air pollution regulation limiting ozone …, approximately 20 percent of current totals. Our results highlight that in addition to protecting human health, air pollution …
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. Overall, we estimate that, for a month of social distancing, the expected premature deaths due to air pollution from personal …
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To understand the impacts of support programs on global emissions, this paper considers the impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the border, and investments in emission-reducing technologies on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full...
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How well do people know their social position relative to others in society and how does their position shape their views on the fairness of unequal outcomes? We provide new answers to these long-standing questions by combining survey-elicited perceptions on income positions and fairness views...
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) workers by allowing them to reduce the negative externalities (e.g. pollution) that would be generated without them, and to …
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