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Heated Debates on Heating: Investigating the Electoral Impact of Climate Policy

Kistinger, Dorothea; Kögel, Noah; Koch, Nicolas; … - 2025

The transition to a renewable heating system poses extraordinary policy challenges to societies in Europe and beyond. Many buildings are heated decentrally, which makes broad public acceptance essential. As governments may be held responsible for perceived policy impacts on individuals,...

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The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India

Barrows, Geoffrey; Garg, Teevrat; Jha, Akshaya - 2019

This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase in coal-fired capacity corresponds to a 14% increase in infant mortality rates in districts near versus far from the plant site. This effect is 2-3 times larger than estimates...

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Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2016

Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...

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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2015

This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of the pandemic with large cross-city differences in baseline pollution measures based on coal-fired...

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Environment vs. Economic Growth: Do Environmental Preferences Translate Into Support for Green Parties?

Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Popova, Olga - 2024

This paper contributes to a better understanding of the drivers of electoral support for Green parties and the environmental actions they promote, which is key to ensuring the long-term feasibility of environmental policies. We examine whether individual environmental preferences translate into...

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Fertility, Mortality and Environmental Policy

Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2016

This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is produced from labor and capital by two sectors, dirty and clean. An emission tax curbs dirty production, which decreases pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to...

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Navigating Cleaner Waters: Waste Import and Water Pollution

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Zhang, Zhuo; Zhou, Weina - 2025

This paper examines the causal impacts of reducing solid waste imports on water quality in China, which was the world's largest importer of waste until recently. We focus on the National Sword policy, introduced at the end of 2017, which abruptly banned the import of plastics, textiles, vanadium...

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Women Political Leaders as Agents of Environmental Change

Berniell, Inés; Marchionni, Mariana; Pedrazzi, Julián; … - 2025

This paper explores how female political leaders impact environmental outcomes and climate change policy actions using data from mixed-gender mayoral races in Brazil. Using a Regression Discontinuity design, we find that, compared to male mayors, female mayors significantly reduce greenhouse gas...

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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009

the government incentive to impact on entry costs, and how entry subsidies can be used strategically in open economies. We … the monopoly pricing distortion. In the autarky equilibrium these subsidies trigger entry, but they eventually do not lead … to more but to better firms in the market. In the open economy there is another, strategic motive for entry subsidies as …

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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Pflüger, Michael P.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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