This paper studies the impact of regional housing and land stock allocations on carbon emissions and the role for policy therein. It first measures the role of home sizes and population densities in determining differences between U.S. urban areas in carbon footprint of their residents, which...

Air pollution is a major environmental issue in China. This paper exploits the relocation of two major power plants in a key city as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the effect of changes in the quality of the environment on the housing market. We use an extensive transaction dataset of new...