This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health spending data from a basic medical insurance program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV)...

This paper uses life satisfaction data to help the design of climate mitigation policies in the United Kingdom. We assess the effects of the exposure to ambient pollutants on long-term life satisfaction and short-term mental health in the UK. We estimate augmented Cobb-Douglas utility functions...

Cap-and-trade has been promoted by economists due to its cost-effectiveness. However, cap-and-trade could also introduce the risk of environmental inequality by creating pollution concentrations in areas where emitting facilities purchase many allowances. To investigate this concern, I collect...

We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...

We study the effects of a large car scrappage scheme in Germany on new car purchases and local air quality by combining vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation across districts in the number of cars eligible...

Environmental regulations are typically considered to be a drag on the economy. However, improved environmental quality may actually enhance productivity by creating a healthier workforce. Evidence suggests that improvements in air quality lead to improvements in worker productivity at the micro...

China’s nighttime economy is associated with leisure, tourism and service sectors, mainly including entertainment-related activities such as restaurants and theatres. Using night lights to proxy for the nighttime economy at the com- munities of China, this study examines the effects of the...

Global warming, climate change and poor air quality are presently some of the greatest problems confronting the world and humanity. The aforesaid prompted this work to invent the “ Industrial Emissions Prevention Process” for continual reduction of the contribution of industry to global...

Although air quality deteriorates every year and millions of lives are put at risk, the determinants of individual attitudes toward environmental pollution remain obscure. We propose a hypothesis whereby the current day’s air quality affects attitudes toward environmental pollution. In the...

The Arctic is a vital region that helps preserve the balance of the global climate. The Arctic environment is particularly sensitive to short-lived climate pollutants, such as black carbon, which is the most light-absorbing component of particulate matter. Ambitious policy action to reduce air...

Bad indoor air quality in schools disrupts education, makes students and teachers sick, and leads to medical bills and other economic losses. Connecticut Substitute Senate Bill No. 1198 will reduce these harms, and the benefits of the bill are much larger than the costs.The net present values of...

South Asia is home to 9 of the world's 10 cities with the worst air pollution. Concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in some of the region's most densely populated and poor areas are up to 20 times higher than what the World Health Organization considers healthy (5 micrograms per...

Electric vehicles (EV) and other so-called low emission vehicles (LEV) are promoted as means to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. Economists routinely assess the corresponding saving in emissions by considering that EV emit only “in the power plant”, based on the technological features of the...

Air quality index remains an area of concern for India at the national level, provincial (state level) and the municipal level (urban areas). The Indian government is using transit-oriented development TOD based urban design to reduce private vehicle usage [40]. However, there are few studies...

People are most exposed to ambient air quality while travelling. They are therefore likely to change their travel choices to minimize exposure. We assess the impact of degrading air quality on modal shares and equivalent CO2 emissions per capita per trip for ten global cities using a...

This paper studies whether people's perception of improvements in local air quality are reflected in the housing market based on comprehensive data on real estate prices from Germany. Using a quasi-experimental research design, we exploit the staggered introduction of Low Emission Zones (LEZs)...

The report synthesizes key findings and recommendations of a study carried out under the World Bank's Advisory Services and Analytics Program, ‘Central Asia: Climate and Environment Program,' which aims to strengthen the capacity of Central Asian countries to achieve sustainable and resilient...

Air pollution results in high economic costs arising from its negative impacts on human health, especially in urban areas. Driving restriction policies such as low emission zones (LEZs) are designed to improve air quality. Indeed, empirical analyses in this Weekly Report confirm that LEZs reduce...

Ride-sharing service has rapidly developed around the world in recent years. In this paper, we examine how ride-sharing service affects urban air pollutants based on DIDI trip and air quality data in Shenzhen, China. With the control of weather factors, we apply spatial panel models to analyse...

We develop a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the efficiency and distributional impacts of the leading air quality regulation in the United States: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). We link our economic model to an integrated assessment model for air pollutants which...

Low Emission Zones (LEZs) reduce local air pollution by restricting emission-intensive vehicles from accessing designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction policies on other areas of life. This paper studies the...

With the construction of ecological civilization, central government's direct inspections have become the new norm of environmental protection supervision. Since 2016, the central government has been dispatching supervision teams, one batch after another, to conduct environmental protection...

The paper applies the synthetic control method to examine the effects of California's Capand-Trade Program on environmental innovation. The analysis exploits the International Patent Classification system to identify patents relating to environmentally sound technologies. This enables the study...

While vintage differentiation is a highly prominent feature of various regulations, it can induce significant biases. We study these biases in the context of New Source Review-a program within the US Clean Air Act imposing costly sulfur dioxide (SO2) abatement requirements on new boilers but not...

This paper considers the treatment of co-benefits in benefit-cost analysis of federal air quality regulations. Using a comprehensive data set on all major Clean Air Act rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency over the period 1997-2019, we show that (1) co-benefits make up a...

In Mexico, voluntary environmental incentive programs such as the Clean Industry certificates are hugely complementary to the traditional command-and-control regulations. Due to the limited resources of the regulatory agency, enrollment in voluntary programs offers the incentive of public...

This paper investigates the impact of gasoline content regulation on consumers’ demand in China. Our empirical design takes advantage of a unique market structure and policyinduced changes in gasoline formulation. Using detailed gas station-level data, we compare the sales volume of stations...

Policymakers combine many different policy tools to achieve emission reductions. However, there remains substantial uncertainty around which mixes of policies are effective. This uncertainty stems from the predominant focus of ex post policy evaluation on isolating effects of single, known...

We categorize the primary incentive-based mechanisms under consideration for addressing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation—pricing carbon, setting intensity standards, and subsidizing clean energy—and compare their market outcomes under similar expansions of clean...

As an environmental supervision model with Chinese characteristics, the environmental protection interview of central government has emerged in recent years and attracted the attention. However, whether environmental protection interview can really curb air pollution remains to be answered. This...

The second wave of COIVD19 has jolted the environment and economy worldwide. Air pollution is one of the primary causes of these pandemics. Therefore, it is important to analyze the air quality index during the COVID19 pandemic. In literature, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods...

This paper investigates the impact of gasoline content regulation on consumers’ demand in China. Our empirical design takes advantage of a unique market structure and policyinduced changes in gasoline formulation. Using detailed gas station-level data, we compare the sales volume of stations...

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) nanomaterials have attracted tremendous research interest in various fields, while the effects of eco-corona formation on the transformation mechanisms and ecological risk of TMDCs remain largely unknown. The effect of eco-corona formation...

Poor air quality is becoming a critical environmental concern in different countries over the last several years. Most of the air pollutants have serious consequences on human health and wellbeing. In this context, efficient forecasting of air pollutants is currently crucial to predict future...

Abstract: Understanding the mechanism of labor reallocation during the implementation of environmental regulations is important for countries to stabilize employment. Using city-level data and listed firm-level data from 2005 to 2019, we investigated the labor reallocation entailed by the Clean...

Since the 9th Five Year Plan (FYP) period (1996-2000), the Chinese central government began to adopt the total emissions control (TEC) policy, a target-based environmental regulation which set emission reduction targets for designated pollutants. The policy became highly binding for local...

This study is one of the first investigating the causal evidence of the morbidity costs of fine particulates (PM2.5) for all age cohorts in a developing country, using individual-level health spending data from a basic medical insurance program in Wuhan, China. Our instrumental variable (IV)...

Starting in 2013, China’s pollution information disclosure program raised public awareness of air quality. This study seeks to analyze the impact of information disclosure on college desirability. To that end, I assemble a comprehensive dataset on admission scores for all colleges in China for...