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I document externalities in the agricultural sector of India due to air pollution. Using variation in pollution induced … pollution from coal plants has a larger effect on agricultural productivity than other types of pollution. Given that the … agricultural sector is a refuge for the poor in many developing countries, these results suggest that the effects of pollution may …
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I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution … induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …
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pollution than those who believe they are in the lower class …
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(global warming, loss of animal and plant species, and pollution of water bodies) are correlated with their well-being in a …
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Economics for managing our depleting resources and biodiversity is imperative part of development, more so since sustainable development has been placed on the prime platform for future sustenance of the planet. Sustainable development is at the heart of policy initiatives due to intensive...
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pollution. Furthermore, results reveal that FDI guided by clean development mechanism and involved in emission reduction … projects in the developing economies play a predominant role to curb the CO2 emission, pollution, and environmental degradation. …
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We study the effect of energy and transport policies on pollution in two developing country cities. We use a …. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters are calibrated to replicate key variables for … how various transport and energy policies affect equilibrium pollution. Policies may be induce rebound effects from …
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generate significant pollution problems and risks to human health and the environment. Over one billion people living in low …, there are opportunities for reducing pollution, alleviating poverty, improving the urban environment, and lowering …
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recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in … EGs, the EGs' net exporters are more likely to see their local pollution to decrease, in particular thanks to income …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …
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