Recent empirical work in several economic fields, particularly environmental and energy
economics, has adapted the regression discontinuity (RD) framework to applications where …

Environmental quality in many developing countries is poor and generates substantial
health and productivity costs. However, the few existing measures of marginal willingness to …

To combat urban challenges such as air pollution stemming from excessive vehicle use,
policy makers have adopted various driving restriction policies (DRPs) worldwide. Although …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and
severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data at the county-by-day level on confirmed …

Like their counterparts in industrialized countries, environmental regulators in developing
countries rely principally on two types of instruments: command-and-control (CAC) policies …

We assess health and wealth impacts of mineral mining using micro-data from about 800
mines in 44 developing countries. Gains in asset wealth (0.3 standard deviations) coexist …

Transportation infrastructure (TI) plays a critical role in China's economic growth, but its
negative impacts on the environment have not been sufficiently addressed by the …

Background A broad range of interventions have been implemented to improve ambient air
quality, and many of these have been evaluated. Yet to date no systematic review has been …

A driving restriction policy, as one of the control-and-command rationing measures, is a
politically acceptable policy tool to address traffic congestion and air pollution in some …

Exploiting the natural experiment created by an unanticipated court injunction, we evaluate
driver responses to road pricing. We find evidence of intertemporal substitution toward …