Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
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- Michael Greenstone
- MIT Department of Economics, E52-359, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142-1347 (e-mail: )
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- Rema Hanna
- Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street (Mailbox 26), Cambridge, MA 02138, and National Bureau of Economic Research, Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (e-mail: ).
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2014-10-01
- DOI
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- 10.1257/aer.104.10.3038
- 公開者
- American Economic Association
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<jats:p> Using the most comprehensive developing country dataset ever compiled on air and water pollution and environmental regulations, the paper assesses India's environmental regulations with a difference-in-differences design. The air pollution regulations are associated with substantial improvements in air quality. The most successful air regulation resulted in a modest but statistically insignificant decline in infant mortality. In contrast, the water regulations had no measurable benefits. The available evidence leads us to cautiously conclude that higher demand for air quality prompted the effective enforcement of air pollution regulations, indicating that strong public support allows environmental regulations to succeed in weak institutional settings. (JEL I12, J13, O13, Q53, Q58) </jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- American Economic Review
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American Economic Review 104 (10), 3038-3072, 2014-10-01
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