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Forest Fires : Why The Large Year-to-Year Variation in Forests Burned?

Apt, Jerome; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...

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Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes

Barwick, Panle Jia; Donaldson, Dave; Li, Shanjun; Lin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The social costs of pollution and climate change hinge critically on humans' ability to adapt. Based on transaction records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid expansion of high-speed railways (HSR) facilitates the...

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Nutrient Pollution and U.S. Agriculture : Causal Effects, Integrated Assessment, and Implications of Climate Change

Metaxoglou, Konstantinos; Smith, Aaron D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the relationship between water nutrient pollution and U.S. agriculture using data between the early 1970s and late 2010s. We estimate a positive causal effect of corn acreage on nitrogen concentration in the country's water bodies using alternative empirical approaches. We find that a...

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Mortality Burden From Wildfire Smoke Under Climate Change

Qiu, Minghao; Li, Jessica; Gould, Carlos F.; Jing, Renzhi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Wildfire activity has increased in the US and is projected to accelerate under future climate change. However, our understanding of the impacts of climate change on wildfire smoke and health remains highly uncertain. We quantify the past and future mortality burden in the US due to wildfire...

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NIMBY Taxes Matter : State Taxes and Interstate Hazardous Waste Shipments

Levinson, Arik - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which state taxes have inhibited interstate transport of" hazardous waste for disposal in the United States. It uses panel data from the Toxics Release" Inventory (TRI) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on interstate" shipments of waste, and...

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Environmental Costs Paid by the Polluter or the Beneficiary? The Case of CERCLA and Superfund

Fullerton, Don - 1993

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...

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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

Greenstone, Michael - 2005

Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation … efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on … for these clean-ups. We cannot reject that the clean-ups had no effect on local housing price growth, nearly two decades …

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Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools?

Hilber, Christian A. L. - 2004

While residents receive similar benefits from many local government programs, only about one-third of all households have children in public schools. We argue that capitalization of school spending into house prices can encourage residents to support spending on schools, even if the residents...

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Fullerton, Don - 2002

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,...

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Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements

Kellenberg, Derek - 2013

Many of the world's environmental problems cross international borders, and to address those problems approximately 1,000 different International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) are in operation today. Most evidence, however suggests that those IEAs are ineffectual, merely ratifying...

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