Browsing Working Papers by Author "Knittel, Christopher R"
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Caution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health
Knittel, Christopher R,; Miller, Douglas L.; Sanders, Nicholas J. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-07)Since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA), atmospheric concentration of local pollutants has fallen drastically. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health benefits. We further ... -
Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R,; Sandle, Ryan (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-08)Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US have relied on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards and Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS). Economists often argue that these policies are inefficient relative ... -
Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Policies
Holland, Stephen P.; Hughes, Jonathan E.; Knittel, Christopher R,; Parker, Nathan C. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-08)Instead of efficiently pricing greenhouse gases, policy makers have favored measures that implicitly or explicitly subsidize low carbon fuels. We simulate a transportation-sector cap & trade program (CAT) and three policies ...