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Smog is sharply declining in growing cities. This suggests that emissions per mile of driving is declining faster than overall vehicle mileage is growing. This paper analyzes emissions for over 24,000 vehicles tested at random between 1997 and 1999 in California's Random Roadside Emissions...
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Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...
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. While much of the literature focuses on cities in the developed world, we anticipate that similar issues will be of …
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Between 1950 and 2030, the share of the world's population that lives in cities is predicted to grow from 30% to 60 … impose on the world's quality of life. This paper examines how urbanization affects greenhouse gas production, and it studies … how urbanites in the developed and developing world will adapt to the challenges posed by climate change …
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