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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
(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 ...
Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
(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 ...
Air quality, infant mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970
(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 ...
Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices
(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 ...
The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
(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 ...
Quasi-experimental and experimental approaches to environmental economics
(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 ...
Did the Clean Air Act cause the remarkable decline in sulfur dioxide concentrations?
(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. ...
Liability and Financial Responsibility for Oil Spills under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and Related Statutes
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2011-06-01)
The economic impacts of climate change : evidence from agricultural profits and random fluctuations in weather
(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 ...
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
(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 ...