Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City
Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from developed country data.
Research
Social Media and Resilience in the Face of Hurricane Sandy
As temperatures drop across the East Coast, where the clean up efforts from Super Storm Sandy are ongoing, stories of resilience are permeating online: tales of New York City Marathon runners shifting
From Berlin to Durban to Doha
Expert Judgments about RD&D and the Future of Nuclear Energy
Probabilistic estimates of the cost and performance of future nuclear energy systems under different scenarios of government research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) spending were obtained
Brief of Robert L. Bordick, Joseph Bowring, James Bushnell, and 18 Other Leading Economists as Amici Curiae in Support of the Petitioners
Electricity Power Supply Association, et al., v. FERC, et al.
Barriers to the Implementation of Green Chemistry in the United States
This paper investigates the conditions under which firms are able to develop and implement innovations with sustainable development benefits.
Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Experimental Evidence in Farming
Existing learning models attribute failures to learn to a lack of data. We model a different barrier.
Nuclear Energy
The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) brings together over 300 international researchers to provide an independent, scientifically based, integrated and policy-relevant analysis of current and emerging e
Energy Policy Shows Fallacy of a Domestic Debate
The presidential debate on Wednesday night is an opportunity for the candidates to discuss, exclusively, “domestic policy.” But that very division of “domestic” and “foreign” policy has always been fo
Interactions Between State and Federal Climate Change Policies.
Economic research on climate change has been crucial in advancing our understanding of the consequences associated with global warming as well as the costs and benefits of the various policies that mi
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