Browsing Working Papers by Author "Greenstone, Michael"
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
Barreca, Alan; Clay, Karen; Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph (MIT CEEPR, 2012-01)Adaptation is the only strategy that is guaranteed to be part of the world's climate strategy. Using the most comprehensive set of data files ever compiled on mortality and its determinants over the course of the 20th ... -
Air quality, infant mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970
Chay, Kenneth Y.; Greenstone, Michael (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)We examine the effects of total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution on infant health using the air quality improvements induced by the 1970 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). This legislation imposed strict regulations ... -
Climate change, mortality, and adaptation : evidence from annual fluctuations in weather in the US
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 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, ... -
Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael; Shapiro, Joseph S. (MIT CEEPR, 2012-07)Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting ... -
Did the Clean Air Act cause the remarkable decline in sulfur dioxide concentrations?
Greenstone, Michael (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)Over the last three decades, ambient concentrations of sulfur dioxide (SO2) air pollution have declined by approximately 80%. This paper tests whether the 1970 Clean Air Act and its subsequent amendments caused this decline. ... -
Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
Currie, Janet; Davis, Lucas; Greenstone, Michael; Walker, Reed (MIT CEEPR, 2012-01)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 ... -
Does hazardous water matter? : evidence from the housing market and the Superfund program
Greenstone, Michael; Gallagher, Justin (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2006)This paper uses the housing market to develop estimates of the local welfare impacts of Superfund sponsored clean-ups of hazardous waste sites. We show that if consumers value the clean-ups, then the hedonic model predicts ... -
The economic impacts of climate change : evidence from agricultural profits and random fluctuations in weather
Deschênes, Olivier; Greenstone, Michael (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2006)This paper measures the economic impact of climate change on US agricultural land by estimating the effect of the presumably random year-to-year variation in temperature and precipitation on agricultural profits. Using ... -
The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael; List, John A.; Syverson, Chad (MIT CEEPR, 2012-09)The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant ... -
Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Greenstone, Michael; Hanna, Rema (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-07)Using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on air pollution, water pollution, environmental regulations, and infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India’s environmental ... -
Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon for Use in U.S. Federal Rulemakings: A Summary and Interpretation
Greenstone, Michael; Kopits, Elizabeth; Wolverton, Ann (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-05)The United States Government recently concluded a year-long process to develop a range of values representing the monetized damages associated with an incremental increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, commonly referred ... -
The Importance of Research and Development (R&D) for U.S. Competitiveness and a Clean Energy Future
Greenstone, Michael (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-06) -
Liability and Financial Responsibility for Oil Spills under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and Related Statutes
Greenstone, Michael (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-06-01) -
Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices
Greenstone, Michael; Looney, Adam (MIT CEEPR, 2012-02)Energy consumption is critical to economic growth and quality of life. America’s energy system, however, is malfunctioning. The status quo is characterized by a tilted playing field, where energy choices are based on the ... -
Quasi-experimental and experimental approaches to environmental economics
Greenstone, Michael; Gayer, Ted (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2007)This paper argues that an increased application of quasi-experimental and experimental techniques will improve understanding about core environmental economics questions. This argument is supported by a review of the ... -
Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
Currie, Janet; Greenstone, Michael; Moretti, Enrico (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-02)We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in ... -
Towards an Emissions Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India
Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael; Pande, Rohini; Ryan, Nicholas (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2010-08)Emissions trading schemes have great potential to lower pollution while minimizing compliance costs for firms in many areas now subject to traditional command-and-control regulation. This paper connects experience with ... -
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
Hanna, Rema; Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael (MIT CEEPR, 2012-07)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 ...