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Pesticide Use and Health Outcomes : Evidence from Agricultural Water Pollution in China
Lai, Wangyang - 2016
By linking provincial pesticide usage reports from several Chinese statistical yearbooks (1998-2011) with the Chinese … between people who drink surface water and ground water in regions with different intensities of rice pesticide use before and …% increase in rice pesticide use unfavorably alters a key medical disability index (Activities of Daily Living or ADL) by 1% for …
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Asymmetric Dynamics of Environmental Bearings of Trade and Energy Consumption in Pakistan
Yasin, Iftikhar - 2020
This study endeavors to investigate asymmetric bearing of energy use, composition effect, foreign trade, and economic prosperity, on the carbon dioxide emanation of Pakistan from 1970 to 2015. This study adopts nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) model methodology to cointegration...
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Pollution Haven and Corruption Paradise
Candau, Fabien - 2016
In this paper, we propose a new perspective to analyze the impact of institutions, environmental standards, and globalization on relocations of polluting firms in countries with lax environmental regulation (called pollution havens). Via a simple theoretical extension from the Economic Geography...
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Impact of Trade in Environmentally Preferable Products and Clean Technologies on Economic Growth and Environmental Quality : Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries and in OECD...
Ben Zineb, Selima - 2019
The aim of this paper is to estimate the indirect and the direct effects of trade in Environmentally Preferable Products and Clean Technologies (called “Class B” lists) on air quality for a number of developed and developing during the period 1996-2012 and 2005-2012 (through environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108444
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The Productive Capacity and Environment : Evidence From OECD Countries
Oluc, Ihsan; Jebli, Mehdi Ben; Can, Muhlis; Guzel, Ihsan; … - 2022
There are many economic parameters that may affect environmental degradation. At the forefront of these parameters is the productive economic structures of the countries The present paper discusses the dynamic relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, economic growth and productive...
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Electoral incentives and firm behavior : evidence from U.S. power plant pollution abatement
Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; … - 2016
Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for governors to determine how changes in electoral incentives alter state regulatory agency behavior. This paper asks whether these impacts spill over into private sector...
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Something in the pipe : Flint water crisis and health at birth
Wang, Rui; Chen, Xi; Li, Xun - 2019
Flint changed its public water source in 2014, causing severe water contamination. We estimate the effect of in utero exposure to polluted water on health at birth using the recent Flint water crisis as a natural experiment. Matching vital statistics birth records with various sources of data,...
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Centralized versus decentralized cleanup of river water pollution : an application to the Ganges
Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - In: Games 14 (2023) 5, pp. 1-12
We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy of two cities-Kanpur and Varanasi-through which the Ganges flows. Our specific objective is to study whether water pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in...
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Measurement of value of statistical life by evaluating diarrhea mortality risk due to water pollution in Laos and Vietnam
Ohno, Eiji; Morisugi, Masafumi; Phouphet Kyophilavong; … - 2012
Diarrhea mortality risk due to water pollution is one of serious problems that threaten human life in Asian developing countries. This study aims to provide basic data for the cost benefit analysis of countermeasures against diarrhea in Laos and Vietnam, and measures the value of statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513919
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The impact of pesticides and dry residual biomass on the ecological footprints in OECD countries
Razzak, Janjua Laeeq; Gani, Osmani Md Ataul - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 199-206). 2022
The present study explores the impacts of pesticide usage and burned biomass on the ecological footprints in OECD … heteroskesedasticity and autocorrelation. In both estimations, the results find that pesticide usage and burned biomass have positive and … significant impacts on the ecological footprints of OECD countries but in particular pesticide usage has stronger effect in …
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