-riding on unrelated pollution control investments. We use plant-level data on more than 100,000 facilities to analyze the Clean … Industry Program, Mexico's flagship voluntary regulatory initiative. We seek to identify the drivers of participation and to …

In Mexico, voluntary environmental incentive programs such as the Clean Industry certificates are hugely complementary … the adoption or renewal of voluntary certificates. I then match plant-level toxic pollution reported and formal regulatory … Mexico from 2004 to 2018. Mandatory reporting of major toxic polluters to the Environment Secretariat began in the year 2004 …

We use high-frequency data on fine particulate matter air pollution (PM 2.5) at the locality level to study the effects … of high pollution on labor supply decisions and hospitalizations for respiratory disease in the metropolitan area of … Mexico City. We document a negative, non-linear relationship between PM 2.5 and same-day labor supply, with strong effects on …