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Private Actions in the Presence of Externalities : The Health Impacts of Reducing Air Pollution Peaks but not Ambient Exposure

Berkouwer, Susanna B.; Dean, Joshua T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Extensive research has documented that elevated air pollution increases mortality and morbidity, with estimates reaching 8 million deaths per year. Many of the world's one billion urban poor face both high ambient concentrations and even higher transient peaks. Should government interventions...

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Urban Forests : Environmental Health Values and Risks

Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, reducing average `PM_2.5` concentration at city population hubs by 4.2 percent. Rapid vegetation growth, however, led to a 7 …

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Uncharted Waters : Effects of Maritime Emission Regulation

Hansen-Lewis, Jamie; Marcus, Michelle M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Maritime shipping emits as much fine particulate matter as half of global road traffic. We are the first to measure the consequences of US maritime emissions standards on air quality, human health, racial exposure disparities, and behavior. The introduction of US maritime emissions control areas...

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Combating Cross-Border Externalities

Shiyi, Chen; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Wang, Huanhuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of a pioneering pollution reduction program, the Ecological Compensation Initiative (ECI) in China, which establishes side payments between upstream and downstream provinces along the same river. The program includes both Coasian and pay-for-performance...

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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

Formal rules within organizations are pervasive, but may be interpreted and implemented differently by actors within the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the environmental regulator in an Indian state, by giving...

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Health Shocks under Hospital Capacity Constraint : Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Guidetti, Bruna Morais; Pereda, Paula Carvalho; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How responsive to health shocks are healthcare systems in the developing world? Developing countries are known to have both lower levels of hospital infrastructure and serious health shocks driven by air pollution. These shocks are transitory and may be marginal relative to other health demands,...

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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities

Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua A.; Severnini, Edson R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

on the model, the paper surveys papers that examine the net effects of coal on the growth in city population and air …

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The Dynamic Impact of Market Integration : Evidence from Renewable Energy Expansion in Chile

Gonzales, Luis E.; Ito, Koichiro; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Effective and economical expansion of renewable energy is one of the most urgent and important challenges of addressing climate change. However, many countries are facing a problem because existing network infrastructures (i.e., transmission networks) were not originally built to accommodate...

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Firm Presence, Pollution, and Agglomeration : Evidence from a Randomized Environmental Place-Based Policy

Gechter, Michael; Kala, Namrata - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Firm location decisions are a key managerial choice, usually optimized over factors like proximity to customers or suppliers. These decisions may also impose externalities on the environment, and on other firms due to competitive or agglomerative forces. The inherent endogeneity of location...

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How Pro-Poor Growth Affects the Demand for Energy

Gertler, Paul - 2013

Most of the future growth in energy use is forecast to come from the developing world. Understanding the likely pace … and specific location of this growth is essential to inform decisions about energy infrastructure investments and to … improve greenhouse gas emissions forecasts. We argue that countries with pro-poor economic growth will experience larger …

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