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Do Richer People Pollute More or Less? New Evidence on Household Level Vehicle Emissions Kuznets Curves
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2013
Smog is sharply declining in growing cities. This suggests that emissions per mile of driving is declining faster than overall vehicle mileage is growing. This paper analyzes emissions for over 24,000 vehicles tested at random between 1997 and 1999 in California's Random Roadside Emissions...
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Growing car ownership in LDCs : the impact on the environment and trade
Kahn, Matthew E. - In: The Columbia journal of world business : publ. … 29 (1994) 4, pp. 12-19
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Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …
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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?
Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023
Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...
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Particulate pollution trends in the 1980s
Kahn, Matthew E. - 1995
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Economic geography and pollution : a comment on Joseph S. Shapiro's "pollution trends and US environmental policy: Lessons from the past half century"
Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Review of environmental economics and policy 16 (2022) 2, pp. 357-360
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Carbon emissions from the commercial building sector : the role of climate, quality, and incentives
Kahn, Matthew E.; Kok, Nils; Quigley, John M. - In: Journal of public economics 113 (2014), pp. 1-12
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Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2010
The geographical location of economic activity within the United States has important implications for carbon mitigation. If households clustered in California's cities rather than in more humid southern cities such as Memphis and Houston, then the average household carbon footprint would be...
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Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
The geographical location of economic activity within the United States has important implications for carbon mitigation. If households clustered in California's cities rather than in more humid southern cities such as Memphis and Houston, then the average household carbon footprint would be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069688
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Chapter 7. Cities and the Environment
Kahn, Matthew E.; Walsh, Randall - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 405-465). 2015
such as local air pollution and green space. A city's greenness is a function of its natural beauty and is an emergent …
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