We examine the response of technological change to one of the major environmental regulations in the European Union (EU) - the Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD). Our identification strategy exploits the structure of this directive, which imposes air quality measures in regions exceeding...

Technology policy is the most widespread form of climate policy and is often preferred over seemingly efficient carbon pricing. We propose a new explanation for this observation: gains that predominantly accrue to households with large capital assets and that influence majority decisions in...

The arrival of the gig economy has led to an unprecedented explosion of person-to-person task outsourcing: driving, food pickup, and shopping can all be done by someone other than the consumer. Such outsourcing potentially creates new challenges for gig workers: knowing the most efficient route,...

Agricultural water pollution from the livestock industry is a growing concern in China and globally. As opposed to size-based regulations targeting larger facilities in the United States, China’s regulations are place-based in nature. Since 2014, China classified eight urban provinces in the...

We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of assigning firms to public or private citizen appeals treatments when they violate pollution standards. There are three main findings. First, public appeals to the regulator through social media...

Work in the gig economy is defined as short-term and task-based jobs mediated by the digital platforms. In Indonesia, the presence of an online motorcycle taxi driver platform in 2015 marked the discourse about the gig economy as the future alternative of jobs on the one hand, and as a new form...