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...

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...

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...

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...

The Air Quality Management (AQM) system in Tajikistan needs strengthening in its key policy and institutional as well as technical aspects to reduce health impacts of air pollution in the most polluted airsheds (Dushanbe and other urban centers). The World Bank's first engagement to strengthen...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This study takes the central, provincial and municipal Environmental Protection Interviews (multi-hierarchical EPI) as a mechanism innovation for precise environmental regulation in Yangtze River Delta (YRD) and constructs a multi-cutoff regression discontinuity design to accurately measure the...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

I study the patterns of diffusion of residential rooftop photovoltaics (PV) systems in Poland and the effects of such technology on local air quality. First, I apply a panel econometric analysis to estimate the impact of peer effects. I lag the difference in time between a submitted PV...

This paper provides the first evidence showing that air pollution can reduce lifethreatening risky behaviors. We study the impact of air pollution on traffic accidents caused by risky driving behaviors, using the universe of accident records and highresolution air quality data of Taiwan from...

Exploiting the implementation of the NOx Budget Trading Program (NBP), we show that a regional environmental regulation can have an unintended emission spillover effect from NBP-regulated power plants to manufacturing plants not regulated by the NBP via hikes in electricity prices. Our...

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...

Racial differences in exposure to ambient air pollution have declined significantly in the United States over the past 20 years. This project links administrative Census microdata to newly available, spatially continuous high resolution measures of ambient particulate pollution (PM2.5) to...

This paper examines unintended effects of air quality regulation on decisions of major polluters, using plant data for 1963 to 1992. A key regulatory tool since 1978 is the annual designation of county air quality attainment status, where non-attainment status triggers specific equipment...

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...

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...

Air pollution is among the most pressing environmental issues worldwide. Unfortunately, an effective reduction in air pollution remains elusive, and so does the incorporation of scientific evidence into air quality policies. This paper takes seven Mexican cities as study cases to document...

We synthesize and review retrospective analyses of federal air quality regulations to examine the contributions of the Clean Air Act to the vast air quality improvements seen since 1970. Geographic heterogeneity in stringency affects emissions, public health, compliance costs, and employment....

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...

This paper uses an estimated demand system that accounts for heterogeneity to calculate and compare the lost consumer surplus from a higher tax on gasoline, a tax on distance, or a subsidy for buying a newer car. We introduce a view of cost-effectiveness that compares policies instead of...

This paper focuses the various impact of the severity of COVID-19 development on air quality in different types of cities. We analyze the different degrees of improvement of concentrations of six air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO and O3) in different types of Chinese cities with...

While the decrease in air pollutants concentration during the COVID-19 lockdown is well documented, high-resolution and multi-city data have not yet been explored systematically to derive a generalizable quantitative link to the drop in vehicular traffic. To bridge this gap, high spatial...

Driving restrictions are adopted by metropolitans worldwide to curb traffic congestion and vehicle emission. This paper investigates the effect of plated-based driving restrictions in Guangzhou city, China, where drivers with nonlocal vehicles are allowed to flexibly select restriction periods...

Raising the public’s awareness on the causes and consequences of air pollution is crucial to incentivise behavioural and policy change that can benefit the health of people and the environment. Air quality forecasting (AQF) can inform early public health warnings and help manage exposure and...

The article studies the patterns of diffusion of residential rooftop photovoltaics (PV) systems in Poland and the effects of such technology on local air quality. First, I apply a panel econometric analysis to estimate the impact of peer effects. I lag the difference in time between a submitted...

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...

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...

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...

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...