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The healthcare costs of air pollution in France 法国空气污染的医疗成本

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103242

Julia Mink

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Downstream carbon leakage from upstream carbon tariffs: Evidence from trade tariffs 上游碳关税造成的下游碳泄漏：来自贸易关税的证据

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103220

Vincent Thivierge

{"title":"Downstream carbon leakage from upstream carbon tariffs: Evidence from trade tariffs","authors":"Vincent Thivierge","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103220","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103220","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Pricing the carbon content of imports, or <em>carbon tariffs</em>, is being considered as a solution to policy-induced carbon leakage. However, the unilateral implementation of carbon tariffs could have unintended consequences, such as further emissions reshuffling or costly trade retaliation. This is particularly the case as proposed carbon tariffs will target emissions from upstream products. This paper estimates how upstream carbon tariffs will affect carbon leakage by exploiting variation in export tariffs. Using a two-country model, I first show that an upstream carbon tariff can lead to emissions leakage down the supply chain. Empirically, I estimate the upstream and downstream foreign emissions effects of export tariffs using plausibly exogenous increases in export tariffs during the 2018–2019 trade war for US manufacturing facilities, while controlling for other tariff changes. While I find evidence that US greenhouse gas emitting facilities respond to export tariffs on their outputs by reducing their emissions, I also find evidence of increased emissions from downstream facilities through input–output linkages. In the case of the US manufacturing industries that faced export tariff increases during the trade war, emissions increases from input users could offset the emissions reductions from facilities in upstream targeted industries. Results in this paper highlight the importance of input–output linkages for the net emissions effect of incomplete carbon tariffs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103220"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144926792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The hidden benefits of CSR: Corporate philanthropy begets giving of employees 企业社会责任的隐性利益：企业慈善事业引发员工的捐赠

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103225

Manuel Grieder , Deborah Kistler , Jan Schmitz

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Informing the uninformed, sensitizing the informed: The two sides of consumer environmental awareness 告知不知情的人，使知情的人敏感：消费者环境意识的两个方面

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103226

Dorothée Brécard , Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline

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Biodiversity and the design of result-based payments: Evidence from Germany 生物多样性和基于结果的支付设计：来自德国的证据

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103247

Sergei Schaub , Alexander Pfaff , Petyo Bonev

{"title":"Biodiversity and the design of result-based payments: Evidence from Germany","authors":"Sergei Schaub , Alexander Pfaff , Petyo Bonev","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Paying farmers for measured outcomes—i.e., results, not actions—is promoted for raising the effectiveness and flexibility of efforts to address agriculture's environmental damages. One key design choice is how exactly to reward these measured results. Continuous rewards are possible, yet, in practice, observed species outcomes have been rewarded using a single threshold (compliant/not compliant) or, to move toward continuity, a few thresholds (e.g., low/medium/high). We assess whether more continuous rewards—specifically, multiple target thresholds for plant species—raise bird diversity. We study a pilot scheme in Germany's federal state of Lower Saxony, where an incentive with one threshold is the baseline. Using citizen-science bird data (offering over 6.7m entries across 16 years) and staggered difference-in-differences estimation, we find that the pilot scheme using multiple target thresholds for plant species raised bird diversity versus the single-threshold baseline (same lower threshold, but no further thresholds). Our results show the benefits of even small shifts in incentive design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103247"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145416884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sustainability as a dynamic game 可持续发展是一个动态的游戏

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103238

Berno Buechel, Corinne Dubois , Stephanie Fuerer, Tjaša Maillard-Bjedov

{"title":"Sustainability as a dynamic game","authors":"Berno Buechel, Corinne Dubois , Stephanie Fuerer, Tjaša Maillard-Bjedov","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainability is a fundamental concept in the environmental domain, but also in other domains, e.g., regarding personal health. Sustainability means using resources today in a way that does not compromise the availability of resources tomorrow. We propose and test a model that incorporates the essential features of sustainability. First, our Sustainability Game is dynamic in the sense that the actions played in each period have consequences for future periods. Second, there is a contribution threshold that must be reached in order to maintain the level of resources, while some use of resources can be absorbed. Third, it incorporates that the temptation to over-use resources is strong when more than one individual is involved. We first derive equilibrium behavior analytically and then test these pre-registered predictions in the lab. Our main results are the following: (i) Theoretically and experimentally, strategic interaction reduces cooperative behavior and undermines sustainability. (ii) Theoretically and experimentally, lowering the threshold fosters cooperative behavior (i.e., contributing according to the threshold) and sustainability. Our results suggest that technological advancements that lower the threshold for sustainability and behavior change toward sustainability need not be viewed as alternatives, but rather as complementary.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103238"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145155108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of energy prices on employment: Evidence from a developing country 能源价格对就业的影响：来自一个发展中国家的证据

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103227

Erik Hille, Cian Angerpointner

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The effects of fare-free transit on the travel behavior of older adults 免费交通对老年人出行行为的影响

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103239

Renato Vieira , Rafael H.M. Pereira , Lucas Emanuel , Pedro Jorge Alves

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More than particulates matter: Multiple pollutants and productivity in Indian call centers 不仅仅是颗粒物：印度呼叫中心的多重污染物和生产力

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103181

Deepshikha Batheja , Sarojini Hirshleifer , Jamie T. Mullins

{"title":"More than particulates matter: Multiple pollutants and productivity in Indian call centers","authors":"Deepshikha Batheja , Sarojini Hirshleifer , Jamie T. Mullins","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We measure the impact of three components of air pollution on daily labor productivity in call centers in five Indian cities. We find that a one standard deviation increase in fine particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>), a pollutant that has been the primary focus of the literature on the harms of air pollution, has a large negative effect of <span><math><mn>0.15</mn><mi>σ</mi></math></span> on an index of intensive margin productivity. Notably, we find a comparable negative effect for a one standard deviation increase in carbon monoxide (CO) of <span><math><mn>0.14</mn><mi>σ</mi></math></span> as well as a negative effect of <span><math><mn>0.09</mn><mi>σ</mi></math></span> from ozone (O<sub>3</sub>). For one of our main productivity variables, the number of calls per shift, one standard deviation increases in PM<sub>2.5</sub>, CO and O<sub>3</sub> lead to declines relative to the mean of 11.8 %, 10.6 % and 6.0 %, respectively. In summing air pollution harms across our sample, CO is responsible for more than half of the total productivity lost, which is more than double the losses attributable to PM<sub>2.5</sub>. We then illustrate the potential productivity impacts of an existing national policy in India that targets PM<sub>2.5</sub> compared to a counterfactual policy that also targets CO and O<sub>3</sub>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103181"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145106500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Adaptation and mitigation of pollution: Evidence from air quality warnings 适应和减轻污染：来自空气质量预警的证据

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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103215

Sandra Aguilar-Gomez

{"title":"Adaptation and mitigation of pollution: Evidence from air quality warnings","authors":"Sandra Aguilar-Gomez","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103215","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeem.2025.103215","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many cities have adopted air quality alert systems to reduce the health risks from severe pollution episodes, pairing public messaging with temporary restrictions on vehicle and industrial activity. Despite their widespread implementation, evidence on their effectiveness remains mixed, in part because of data limitations and a focus on traffic-only or voluntary measures. This paper evaluates Mexico City’s air quality alert program using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design that exploits a preset ozone threshold for policy activation. I find that alerts lead to significant improvements in ozone and sulfur dioxide concentrations and sizable reductions in emergency department visits for respiratory (56 % decrease) and cardiovascular conditions (50 % decrease). The effects on transport-related pollutants are smaller and time-dependent, consistent with the alerts mitigating vehicle emissions more slowly. To assess mechanisms, I analyze information-seeking behavior, mobility data, and emissions inventories. The alerts increase online searches about air quality and the policy itself, but not about protective behaviors. Traffic volume falls and congestion improves, though public transit usage does not increase. Finally, I show that the pollution reductions are largest near restricted industrial facilities, which suggests that industrial curbs play a central role in policy effectiveness. These results can support the design of short-term environmental response policies in cities facing both mobile and stationary sources of pollution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":"134 ","pages":"Article 103215"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145106498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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