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Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
Currie, Janet; Davis, Lucas; Greenstone, Michael; … - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 2, pp. 678-709
Regulatory oversight of toxic emissions from industrial plants and understanding about these emissions' impacts are in their infancy. Applying a research design based on the openings and closings of 1,600 industrial plants to rich data on housing markets and infant health, we find that: toxic...
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Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 10, pp. 3038-72
Using the most comprehensive developing country dataset ever compiled on air and water pollution and environmental regulations, the paper assesses India's environmental regulations with a difference-in-differences design. The air pollution regulations are associated with substantial improvements...
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Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
Currie, Janet; Greenstone, Michael; Davis, Lucas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
A ubiquitous and largely unquestioned assumption in studies of housing markets is that there is perfect information about local amenities. This paper measures the housing market and health impacts of 1,600 openings and closings of industrial plants that emit toxic pollutants. We find that...
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Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program
Greenstone, Michael; Gallagher, Justin - 2005
Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation … efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on … for these clean-ups. We cannot reject that the clean-ups had no effect on local housing price growth, nearly two decades …
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Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy
Almond, Douglas; Chen, Yuyu; Greenstone, Michael; Li, … - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 184-90
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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program
Greenstone, Michael; Gallagher, Justin - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005
Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation … efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on … for these clean-ups. We cannot reject that the clean-ups had no effect on local housing price growth, nearly two decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423096
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Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program
Greenstone, Michael; Gallagher, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation … efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on … for these clean-ups. We cannot reject that the clean-ups had no effect on local housing price growth, nearly two decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084814
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Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US
Deschenes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper produces the first large-scale estimates of the US health related welfare costs due to climate change. Using the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and two state of the art climate models, the analysis suggests that under a "business as usual" scenario climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720107
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Growth, Pollution, and Life Expectancy: China from 1991-2012
He, Guojun; Fan, Maoyong; Zhou, Maigeng; Ebenstein, Avraham - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between income, pollution, and mortality in China from 1991-2012. Using first-difference models, we document a robust positive association between city-level GDP and life expectancy. We also find a negative association between city-level particulate air...
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