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Death of Coal and Breath of Life : The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality
Brown, Jason; Tousey, Colton - 2020
The number of U.S. coal-red power plants declined by nearly 250 between 2001 and 2018. Given that burning coal generates large amounts of particulate matter is known to have adverse health effects, closure of coal-red power plants should improve local air quality. Using spatial panel data from...
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Density, Cities and Air Pollution : A Global View
Castells-Quintana, David; Dienesch, Elisa; Krause, Melanie - 2020
In this paper, we take a global view at air pollution looking at countries and cities worldwide. In doing so, we revisit the relationship between population density and air pollution, using i) a large panel of countries with data from 1960 to 2010, and ii) a unique and large sample of more than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092027
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Digital Financial Inclusion and Air Pollution : Nationwide Evidence from China
Chen, Xiaodong; Guo, Anda; Miao, Zhuang - 2022
We provide nationwide causal estimates of digital financial inclusion’s (DFI) effect on air pollution in the short term for China from 2014 to 2018. Using distance to Xihu District as an instrument, a 1% gain of DFI increases air pollution by 0.36%. The baseline result is strongly robust to...
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Economic Inequality and Environmental Quality: Evidence of Pollution Shifting in Russia
Vornovytskyy, Marina; Boyce, James - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University … - 2010
This paper utilizes the Russian Statistical Agency's data on air pollution in Russia to analyze the impact of economic inequalities among Russia's regions on environmental degradation. Controlling for the absolute level of income, we find that regions with lower incomes relative to those of...
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"Urbanization and decentralization : the changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services" : paper for 54th European regional Science Association Con...
Braun, Joachim von - 2014
"Urbanization and Decentralization: The changing urban-rural linkages and opportunities of decentralization of services … urbanization and decentralization. Ever stronger linkages between urban and rural areas represent a challenge for sustainable … reviews the evidence of synergies and pitfalls between urbanization and decentralization with concepts of economic geography …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011492002
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Does pollution drive achievement? : the effect of traffic pollution on academic performance
Heissel, Jennifer; Persico, Claudia; Simon, David - 2019
We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133596
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Urban sprawl and air quality in European cities: an empirical assessment
Cappelli, Federica; Guastella, Gianni; Pareglio, Stefano - 2021
In this paper we estimate the relationship between urban sprawl and a measure of air quality, namely the number of days in which the PM10 concentration exceeds safeguard limits in European Union cities. Building on a multidimensional representation of sprawl, the paper employs several indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487819
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The impact of population, affluence, technology, and urbanization on CO2 emissions across income groups
Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne - 2019
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions within the STIRPAT framework over the period 1971 to … results robustly show an inverted N-shaped relationship between urbanization and CO2 emissions in the long-term associated … urbanization tend to reduce CO2 emissions in the long-term. The estimated turning point for the urbanization ratio after which CO2 …
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Analysis of transport policy scenarios for EUcountries with PRIMES-transport
Knockaert, Jasper; Proost, Stef; Regemorter, Denise Van - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2004
The partial equilibrium model PRIMES-transport has been used for the evaluation of different transport policy measures … which are on the table at EU or national level. The model covers the transport activity by transport mode and their … described. Then in a second part the different transport policy measures are evaluated. The policy measures are the introduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005503910
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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance
Heissel, Jennifer - 2019
We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859307