Documents et rapports
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Heat and Law Enforcement (anglais)
Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how high temperatures affect the decision making of police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that police reduce the number of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10776 Date du document: 16 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Bolotnyy,Valentin
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Air pollution in Tbilisi Poverty and Distributional Consequences (anglais)
Reducing outdoor air pollution can be achieved by strengthening air quality monitoring and regulating traffic and industrial emissions. Advancing existing initiatives by exercising more control over car...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 188676 Date du document: 2 avril 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baquie,Sandra,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Du,Xinming,Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso
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In Most Low- and Middle-Income Countries Pollution Levels Are Higher in Wealthier Areas (anglais)
Air pollution is a major threat to health, and the dangers are particularly acute in low- and middle-income countries. However, little is known about how the burden of pollution is spread across the wealth...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10689 Date du document: 31 janvier 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Heft-Neal,Sam
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Impacts and Sources of Air Pollution in Tbilisi, Georgia (anglais)
Air pollution profoundly impacts welfare, causing more deaths globally than malnutrition, AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. In the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, air pollution levels exceed international...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10643 Date du document: 12 décembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baquie,Sandra,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Du,Xinming,Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso
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Moving to Adaptation ? Understanding the Migratory Response to Hurricanes in the United States (anglais)
Using data on the paths of all hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin from 1992 to 2017, this paper studies whether migration has served as a form of adaptation to hurricane risk. The findings show that on average...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10528 Date du document: 27 juillet 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Bolotnyy,Valentin
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Air Pollution Reduces Economic Activity: Evidence from India (anglais)
Exposure to fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) increases mortality and morbidity and reduces human capital formation and worker productivity. As a consequence, high levels of particulate pollution may...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10515 Date du document: 30 juin 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Choudhary,Rishabh,Sharma,Dhruv
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Poverty and Distributional Consequences of Air Pollution in Tbilisi (anglais)
Air pollution has profound impacts on welfare, causing more deaths globally than malnutrition, AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Poorer households are often more vulnerable due to residential sorting...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 183139 Date du document: 15 juin 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Baquie,Sandra,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Du,Xinming,Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso
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Climate Risks, Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience in Nepal (anglais)
The authors investigate key climate change hazards affecting Nepali households and livelihoods: river flooding, heat exposure, drought, landslides, and air pollution. The authors analyze the distributional...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 183213 Date du document: 2 juin 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amadio,Mattia,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Bosch,Lander Sonia M,Kaila,Heidi Kristiina,Krishnan,Nandini,Molinario,Giuseppe Maria
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Man or Machine ? Environmental Consequences of Wage Driven Mechanization in Indian Agriculture (anglais)
This paper uses an exogenous shock to wages from the world’s largest anti-poverty program to show that higher wages can lead to increased air pollution, likely by inducing farmers to shift into a labor-saving...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10376 Date du document: 27 mars 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick
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Higher Levels of No-Till Agriculture Associated with Lower PM2.5 in the Corn Belt (anglais)
No-till approaches to agricultural soil management have been encouraged as a means of reducing soil erosion, reducing water pollution, and increasing carbon sequestration. An understudied additional benefit...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10216 Date du document: 20 octobre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Lobell,David
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Current Benefits of Wildfire Smoke for Yields in the US Midwest May Dissipate by 2050 (anglais)
Wildfires throughout western North America produce smoke plumes that can stretch across the agricultural regions of the American Midwest. Climate change is likely to increase the number and size of these...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9953 Date du document: 3 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Wang,Sherrie
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Heat, Crime, and Punishment (anglais)
Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how heat affects criminal defendants, police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that arrests increase by up to 15 percent on...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9909 Date du document: 24 janvier 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Bolotnyy,Valentin