We provide causal evidence from a developing country context that children exposed to lead at a young age exhibit worse cognitive outcomes. We exploit variation in exposure to leadcontaminated toxic sites in Indonesia and estimate a two-way fixed effects model using variation in age at first...

Problem Definition: Marijuana is increasingly gaining legal acceptance in the United States. From 1996 to 2016, 28 states and the District of Columbia legalized marijuana for medical use. At the same time, studies find that when individuals use marijuana, they can experience several negative...

The study analyzes the legal regulation of the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes provided for by the Bamako Convention (regional), in comparison with the regime of the Basel Convention (universal). It has been established that thanks to the Bamako Convention, the standards for...

This review addresses the EU's actions for tackling hazardous waste. Hazardous waste can harm human health and the environment. EU initiatives have focused on its prevention, but hazardous waste has continued to increase since 2004. Its safe treatment is hampered by difficulties, e.g. reliably...

Trade barriers can exist variably and are not just limited to tariffs. Based on a bilateraltrade model under international oligopolistic competition, we show that governments endogenouslydetermine red-tape barriers (RTBs), which are trade barriers caused by wastefuladministrative procedures. We...

Providing a noxious facility poses two problems previously unexplored together: where to locate it and how large it should be. We propose a mechanism combining some market-like properties with a modified second-price auction. The mechanism selects a host, a facility size, and determines the...

Many studies have found that bioretention systems are very effective in reducing heavy metal content. However, their long-term treatment performance, as well as the heavy metal variations in the systems are rarely explored. This paper reports a field study that the accumulation of chromium (Cr),...

Rotenone (ROT) is a widely used natural pesticide, and its effect on growth and developmental toxicity remain unclear. In the present study, the effects of ROT exposure on the reproductive structure and function of the female Drosophila melanogaster and third instar larvae were investigated....

Fluoride and silica contamination in water is a worldwide issue due to the wastewater discharge from semiconductor industry. Coagulation-ultrafiltration (UF) process is commonly used to treat semiconductor wastewater, but requires excessive amounts of coagulant/flocculant. In this study, an...

Bureaucracies may set priorities for their workload according to social goals or the desires of concentrated private interests. This paper explores bureaucratic priorities empirically by studying Superfund, the federal program for cleaning up contaminated sites. It examines the amount of time...

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) manages cleanup of hazardous waste releases at over 3,500 sites across the US, which covers approximately 17.5% of all developed land in the country. This paper evaluates the housing market impacts of cleanups performed under RCRA by estimating...

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) of 1980 follows the "polluter pays" principle by placing retroactive liability on responsible firms. Yet this cost is borne by current shareholders who did not benefit from past low-cost waste management. This...

Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing pollution. We take three papers from the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management as examples, and we extend them to make an additional important point. In each case,...

International institutions are important regulators of the trade-environment relationship. Many of them deploy trade measures for environmental purposes, with mixed results. The Basel Convention is a typical case where designated strong trade restrictions have failed to curb movements of...

Numerous studies have investigated environmental justice (EJ) concerns in the context of the Superfund program. Previous studies, however, are limited by their inability to capture the characteristics of communities with land contamination at the timing of the siting, regional focus, varying...

Purpose This paper explores how Industry 4.0 facilitates small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets to gain and maintain organizational legitimacy from the government and market and capture value from circular economy (CE) adoption in their businesses....

Over the past two decades, the failure of the United States to ratify a string of global multilateral environmental agreements has become a significant source of frustration for environmentalists and diplomats. Delay has been uniquely serious, however, with respect to the 1989 Basel Convention...

The presence of Superfund sites can have substantial impacts on surrounding property values. A shortcoming of studies utilizing the traditional hedonic price model is that they fail to account for the presence of spatial dependence or autocorrelation in residential housing. Jefferson County,...

This paper will examine the existing hazardous waste management systems of the heavy industries in Sri Lanka and safety issues that are influencing those practices. Further of this paper is to identify existing hazardous waste management facilities in Sri Lanka while evaluating the factors which...

The environmental problems of the United States and the European nations have generated a dynamic body of literature in legal and economic research. One of the most significant branches of this research has been the analysis of strict liability versus ex post negligence standards, and the...

This study extends the use of panel data to analyze the damage associated with proximity to a hazardous waste site. Panel data can control for property specific factors which affect sale values, allowing the analysis to focus upon both the spatial and intertemporal factors associated with...

Since the 1980s, the management and disposal of hazardous waste has been an ongoing and escalating global problem. While Northern countries generate most of this waste, a large quantity is exported to the global South. This places a disproportionate burden on countries that frequently lack the...