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How Rules and Compliance Impact Organizational Outcomes : Evidence from Delegation in Environmental Regulation

Fenske, James; Haseeb, Muhammad; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

with higher pollution potential. Furthermore, baseline disagreement with more subordinates' recommendations reduces …

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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 …

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The Hidden Toll of Airborne Lead : Infant Mortality Impacts of Industrial Lead Pollution

Clay, Karen; Severnini, Edson R.; Wang, Xiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper uses U.S. Toxic Release Inventory data on air lead emissions to provide IV estimates of the effects of air lead concentration on infant mortality. The causal effect of lead on infant mortality is identified by annual variation in air fugitive lead emissions interacted with wind speed...

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Climate Capitalists

Gormsen, Niels; Huber, Kilian; Oh, Sangmin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Firms' perceived cost of green capital has decreased since the rise of sustainable investing. Green and brown firms perceived their cost of capital to be the same before 2016, but after the post-2016 surge in sustainable investing, green firms perceived their cost of capital to be on average 1...

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A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Economic Activity

Yang, Anton; Ai, Jianwei; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

production, a major industrial pollution source worldwide. Combining plant output data with geospatial data, such as ambient air …

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Testing Above the Limit : Drinking Water Contamination and Test Scores

Marcus, Michelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper provides the first estimates of the contemporaneous effect of drinking water quality violations on students' academic achievement. Using student-level test score data with residential addresses, geographic information on water systems, and drinking water violations from North...

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"Invisible Killer" : Seasonal Allergies and Accidents

Akesaka, Mika; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Although at least 400 million people suffer from seasonal allergies worldwide, the adverse effects of pollen on "non-health" outcomes, such as cognition and productivity, are relatively understudied. Using ambulance archives from Japan, we demonstrate that high pollen days are associated with...

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Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity

Hernandez-Cortes, Danae; Meng, Kyle C.; Weber, Paige E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

-resolution pollution transport model. Between 2000-2018, PM2.5 concentrations from electricity fell by 89% for the average individual, more … air pollution policies and recent coal-to-natural gas fuel switching have played major roles in reducing U.S. racial …/ethnic pollution disparities from electricity. While we detect similarly large PM2.5 improvements for the average low and high income …

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Heads Up : Does Air Pollution Cause Workplace Accidents?

Lavy, Victor; Rachkovski, Genia; Yoresh, Omry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Literature has shown that air pollution can have short- and long-term adverse effects on physiological and cognitive … related to productivity losses in the labor market. Using data from all construction sites and pollution monitoring stations … in Israel, we find a strong and significant connection between air pollution and construction site accidents. We find …

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Who Benefits from Hazardous Waste Cleanups? Evidence from the Housing Market

Cassidy, Alecia Waite; Hill, Elaine L.; Ma, Lala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

" of pollution and could correct pre-existing disparities in exposure to land-based contamination …

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