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Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
Currie, Janet - 2012
A ubiquitous and largely unquestioned assumption in studies of housing markets is that there is perfect information about local amenities. This paper measures the housing market and health impacts of 1,600 openings and closings of industrial plants that emit toxic pollutants. We find that...
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The Effects of Air Pollution on Labor Supply in Japan : A Panel Data Analysis based on PM 2.5 Pollution and Labor Data
Yamada, Daichi; Narita, Daiju - 2021
We empirically examine how fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution affects labor supply in Japan. The effects of PM2 ….5 pollution could be mixed. While adverse health effects of PM2.5 pollution can lead to reduced labor supply, workers can rather … supply in a country with moderate levels of pollution. We use a monthly panel dataset covering entire Japan in 2013–2017 and …
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Housing environmental risk in urban areas : cross country comparison and policy implications
Chiarini, Bruno; D'Agostino, Antonella; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2017
The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...
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Estimating the Marginal Willingness to Pay Function Without Instrumental Variables
Bishop, Kelly C. - 2017
The hedonic model of Rosen (1974) has become a workhorse for valuing the characteristics of differentiated products despite a number of well-documented econometric problems, including a source of endogeneity that has proven difficult to overcome. Here we outline a simple, likelihood-based...
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Using Panel Data to Easily Estimate Hedonic Demand Functions
Bishop, Kelly C. - 2017
The hedonics literature has often asserted that if one were able to observe the same individual make multiple purchase decisions, one could recover rich estimates of preferences for a given amenity. In particular, in the face of a changing price schedule, observing each individual twice is...
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A Travel Cost Estimation of Consumer Surplus in Recreational Visits : A Count Model Approach
Konwar, Daisy; Goswami, Nivedita - 2022
Recreational services are demanded because they generate benefits. The recreational benefits connected with a destination can be valued based on visitor preferences, which can aid in the formulation of an appropriate Natural Resource Management policy. Environmental and natural resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241428
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Consumption-Based Versus Production-Based Accounting of CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions : Is There Evidence for Carbon Leakage?
Franzen, Axel - 2018
Lately, a controversial debate has evolved regarding consumption-based accounting (CBA) versus production-based accounting (PBA) of CO2 emissions. So far, the debate has been predominately theoretical and has inspired only a few empirical studies. In this article, we compare production-based...
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Happiness in the air : how does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being?
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2015
Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317629
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Smog in Our Brains : Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance
Chen, Xi - 2017
While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written … cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance based on a nationally representative survey in China. By merging a … find that contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution impedes both verbal and math scores of survey subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960263
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Smog in Our Brains : Gender Differences in the Impact of Exposure to Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance in China
Chen, Xi - 2017
While there is a large body of literature on the negative health effects of air pollution, there is much less written … cumulative exposure to air pollution on cognitive performance based on a nationally representative survey in China. By merging a … find that contemporaneous and cumulative exposure to air pollution impedes both verbal and math scores of survey subjects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961156