Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment
(MIT CEEPR, 2012-08)Two decades have passed Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That system performed well but ...
