We exploit the phase-out of leaded gasoline to isolate the impact of early childhood lead exposure on outcomes in adulthood. By combining administrative data on school performance, high school graduation, crime, earnings, and cognitive and non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead...

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because of its threat to sustainable development goals. Economic development is responsible for climate change as well as it is complementary to sustainability. Hence, environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis is central to the development...

This study examines the impact of trade openness, urbanization, and human capital on environmental degradation using the panel data of 126 economies for the years 1971-2020. The study also extends the analysis for four sub-panels namely, high-income economies (HIC), upper-middle-income economies...