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Do Richer People Pollute More or Less? New Evidence on Household Level Vehicle Emissions Kuznets Curves

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2013

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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Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?

Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …

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Chapter 56. Sprawl and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2481-2527). 2004

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...

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[Rezension von: Kahn, Matthew E., Green cities, urban growth and the environment]

Mills, Edwin S. - In: Journal of economic literature 45 (2007) 4, pp. 1090-1092

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Green cities : urban growth and the environment

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2006

Introduction -- Measuring urban environmental quality -- The urban environmental Kuznets curve -- Income growth and the urban environment: -- The role of the market -- Income growth and greener governance -- Population growth and the urban environment -- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of...