We leverage the timing of coalmine accidents to examine the effect of coal mining on air pollution. Safety regulations … mandate that coal mining be suspended if a mine experiences an accident with 10 or more fatalities. We use a stacked … pollution data at the county-day level with the dates of accidents to show that on average, suspending coal mining reduces local …

also widely feared that it exacerbates unemployment especially in transition and development economies. This paper proposes … model explains how privatization affects employment in transition and developing economies through different, and often … intuitively appealing explanation for the job gains and losses caused by privatization in China during its transition. The model …