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The impact of climate change on mortality in the United States : benefits and costs of adaptation
Deschênes, Olivier - 2022
mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329615
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael; List, John A.; Syverson, Chad - 2012
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165803
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The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States : Benefits and Costs of Adaptation
Deschênes, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
mortality risk previously documented up to 2004 have continued up to 2019, consistent with continued investments in health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334499
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Defensive investments and the demand for air quality : evidence from the NOx budget program and ozone reductions
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2013
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788835
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Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?
Molitor, David; White, Corey D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Do environmental conditions pose greater health risks to individuals living in urban or rural areas? The answer is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447311
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Industrial Production in the United States : Some Statistics
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
Media pundits and some politicians would have us believe that industrial production has been declining in the United States. Some would even say that “we don't make things anymore.” However, the statistics show a different picture. This paper examines the trade statistics for the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963810
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The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the U.S. Construction Sector
Goolsbee, Austan; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
time in the efficiency with which construction firms translate materials inputs into output, and a corresponding shift …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537739
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Downstream activities : the possibilities and the realities
Östensson, Olle; Löf, Anton - 2017
The paper discusses the practical possibilities of achieving increased downstream processing and the policies that are commonly used for this purpose. It reviews the reasons why forward vertical integration is not always an optimal choice for extractive industry companies. It finds little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646289
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Local content, supply chains, and shared infrastructure
Östensson, Olle - 2017
Local content policies in the context of extractive industries have attracted increased interest in recent years. Most countries with a significant extractive industry have included local content requirements either in their legislation or exploitation contracts. Such efforts may be constrained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636382
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Investing in Innovation : A Policy Framework for Attaining Sustainable Prosperity in the United States
Lazonick, William - 2022
has experienced unstable employment and inequitable income, while growing numbers of the business firms upon which they … firms are not alone in making investments in the productive capabilities required to generate innovative goods and services …. Household units and government agencies also make investments in productive capabilities upon which business firms rely for …
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