题目：Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

作者：Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna

主讲人：倪霓   

时间：2017 年 3 月 30 日 13:30 — 15:00

地点：浙江财经大学财税学院 1 号楼 302 室

主办单位：浙江财经大学必发9988集团官方网站

文献信息：Greenstone M, Hanna R. Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India[J]. American Economic Review. 2014, 104(10): 3038-3072.

内容摘要：

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.

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