microsimulation model based on household budget survey data to assess the effects on various income groups and on inequality. We … inequality, while spending the revenues on a reduction of labour taxation increases inequality. These results could be relevant …

governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

Car exhaust is a major source of air pollution, but little is known about its impacts on population health. We exploit … - across the United States from 2008-2015 as a natural experiment to measure the health impact of car pollution. Using the … at all pollution levels and across the entire socioeconomic spectrum …

role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …

skill-biased, then carbon pricing may increase the skill premium of earnings and subsequent wage inequality; however, a more … elastic skill supply through better education quality may mitigate adverse economic outcomes, including wage inequality, and … inequality that results from carbon pricing …

examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic … air quality, we employ daily data on air pollution between 2015 and 2020. Our difference-in-differences results show that …