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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies: Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity

van den Bijgaart, Inge; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2020

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity

Bijgaart, Inge van den; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021

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Cigarette Taxes, Smoking, and Health in the Long Run

Friedson, Andrew; Li, Moyan; Meckel, Katherine; Rees, … - 2021

Medical experts have argued forcefully that using cigarettes harms health, prompting the adoption of myriad anti-smoking … policies. The association between smoking and mortality may, however, be driven by unobserved factors, making it difficult to … a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality. A one-dollar increase in teenage …

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Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19

Isphording, Ingo E.; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of Covid-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Recent Findings and Methodologies in Economics Research in Environmental Justice

Cain, Lucas; Hernandez-Cortes, Danae; Timmins, Christopher - 2023

This review synthesizes economics-oriented research in environmental justice with a focus on the last decade. We first categorize this literature into broad areas of inquiry and review main findings. Then, we review recent advances in data and methodologies that have allowed for new study...

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Polar Amplification: A Fractional Integration Analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis Alberiko; … - 2024

This paper uses fractional integration methods to obtain new evidence on polar amplification. The adopted modelling framework is very general since it allows the differencing parameter to take any real value, including fractional ones, and provides useful information on both the short and the...

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Energy Policies and Pollution in Two Developing Country Cities: A Quantitative Model

Borck, Rainald; Mulder, Peter - 2024

We study the effect of energy and transport policies on pollution in two developing country cities. We use a quantitative equilibrium model with choice of housing, energy use, residential location, transport mode, and energy technology. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use....

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Market effects of voluntary climate action by firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange

Gans, Will; Hintermann, Beat - 2011

Why do for-profit firms take voluntary steps to improve the environment? Brand appeal to green consumers or investors, the ability to influence or avoid regulation, or the experience gained for future regulation, have all been suggested as possible reasons. The empirical evidence is decidedly...

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CCS - Failing to Pass Decision Gates

Emhjellen, Magne; Osmundsen, Petter - 2013

Socio-economic criteria for climate projects have been used in analysing the value of the climate benefit of a reduction in CO2. These reports are optimistic, yet CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. Little attention has been devoted to profitability assessments based on...

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