Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Willingness to pay for air quality is a function of health and the costly defensive investments that contribute to health, but there is little research assessing the empirical importance of defensive investments. The setting for this paper is a large US emissions cap and trade market – the NOx Budge...

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Main Authors: Deschênes, Olivier, Greenstone, Michael, Shapiro, Joseph S.
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: MIT CEEPR 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71998