This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … decreasing fertility and the population size. Correspondingly, if the clean sector is more capital intensive, then the emission …

individual plants would need to comply with the new policy. I use a difference-in-differences approach to compare pollution … plants with a lower probability of being regulated invested in fewer capital-intensive pollution controls and reduced … pollution by 13% less on average. Many of these plants did switch to capital-intensive pollution controls after the court upheld …