Environmental regulations such as air quality standards can lead to notable improvements in ambient air quality and to related health benefits. But they impose additional production costs on firms and may reduce productivity, earnings, and employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and...

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted U- shaped relationship between temperature and TFP and...

A recent highly cited paper from this journal develops a model predicting maximum sustainable yield (<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$MSY$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="italic">MSY</mi> </mrow> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>) of a fishery using the historical maximum catch (<InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$MaxCatch$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="italic">MaxCatch</mi> </mrow> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>). The model is parameterized with a small sample of fisheries from the United States, and is...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation>

In this paper we report the results of the only field test of which we are aware that uses randomized trials to measure whether stricter enforcement and verification of work search behavior alone decreases unemployment claims and benefits paid in the U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) program....

This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and two state of the art climate models, the analysis suggests that under a "business as usual" scenario, climate...

Using random year-to-year variation in temperature, we document the relationship between daily temperatures and annual mortality rates and daily temperatures and annual residential energy consumption. Both relationships exhibit nonlinearities, with significant increases at the extremes of the...