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The Effect of Pollution and Heat on High Skill Public Sector Worker Productivity in China
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2019
estimates of the private sector productivity elasticities with respect to pollution …
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International Trade in Used Durable Goods : The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA
Davis, Lucas W. - 2008
Previous studies of trade and the environment overwhelmingly focus on how trade affects where goods are produced. However, trade also affects where goods are consumed. In this paper we describe a model of trade with durable goods and non-homothetic preferences. In autarky, low-quality (used)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464083
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The Evolving Geography of China's Industrial Production : Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality of Life
Zheng, Siqi - 2013
survey examines recent work that studies the economic geography of industrial production, per-capita income, pollution and … that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459037
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Incentivizing China's Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities : The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism
Zheng, Siqi - 2013
pollution issues. Based on a principal-agent framework, we present evidence consistent with the hypothesis that both the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459789
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Prolonging Coal’s Sunset : The Causes and Consequences of Local Protectionism for a Declining Polluting Industry
Eyer, Jonathan - 2017
In recent years, the share of U.S electricity generated by coal has fallen from nearly 50% to 33%. The costs of this transition are spatially concentrated, and mining states have already lost income due to the reduced demand for coal. Coal states have enacted policies to encourage local power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455491
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The Consequences of Spatially Differentiated Water Pollution Regulation in China
Chen, Zhao - 2016
China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456171
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Searching for Customers, Finding Pollution
Bassi, Vittorio; Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
detailed air pollution measurements within Ugandan cities. We find that firms locate on the busiest roads searching for … customer visibility, but in doing so they expose their workers to substantial pollution. This sorting pattern increases profits …
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