In this review, we discuss three major contributions economists have made to our
understanding of the relationship between the environment and individual well-being. First …

Evidence shows that pollution exposure early in life is detrimental to near-term health, and
an increasing body of evidence suggests that early-childhood health influences health and …

We exploit the structure of the Clean Air Act to provide new evidence on the capitalization of
total suspended particulates (TSPs) air pollution into housing values. This legislation …

This paper estimates the impacts of the Clean Air Act's division of counties into pollutant-
specific nonattainment and attainment categories on measures of industrial activity obtained …

April 22nd is the 45th Earth Day, which marks the birth of the modern environmental
movement that helped lead to the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency, the …

This paper estimates the effect of air pollution on child hospitalizations for asthma using
naturally occurring seasonal variations in pollution within zip codes. Of the pollutants …

A pervasive problem in estimating the costs of pollution is that optimizing individuals may
compensate for increases in pollution by reducing their exposure, resulting in estimates that …

This paper assesses whether responses to information about risk impact estimates of the
relationship between ozone and asthma in Southern California. Using a regression …

There is strong evidence that short-run fluctuations in air pollution negatively impact infant
health and contemporaneous adult health, but there is less evidence on the causal link …

What is a green city? What does it mean to say that San Francisco or Vancouver is more"
green" than Houston or Beijing? When does urban growth lower environmental quality, and …