This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to examine the home care received by elderly in Western Europe. Specifically, we relate the demand for home care to the health status of the elderly household members and like previous studies find that health...

This paper investigates the timing of wealth transfers between generations. We develop an overlapping generations model in which each generation can borrow against its future income but not against expected bequest. As a result, generations relatively poorer than their parents may end up not...

In this paper, we investigate whether there is a pollution haven effect, specifically, the effect of environmental regulations on firm location. Our identification uses the Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy implemented by the Chinese government in 1998. The difference-in-differences (DID)...

In this paper, we investigate whether there is a pollution haven effect, specifically, the effect of environmental regulations on firm location. Our identification uses the Two Control Zones (TCZ) policy implemented by the Chinese government in 1998. The difference-in-differences (DID)...

This paper investigates the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic firms’ air pollution emissions in a developing country context. We provide quasi-natural experiment evidence from China, using a plausibly exogeneous relaxation of FDI regulations upon China’s WTO accession in...

This paper studies the impact of a policy reform in China that removed inter-regional market frictions by incorporating counties into prefectures with a larger market. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we compare incorporated counties, both before and after the reform, to two novel...

This paper studies the causal effect of corruption on the environment using a 2004 Heilongjiang anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment. It examines the impact of the campaign on air pollution emissions of local enterprises using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy,...