Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102941
Tobias Eibinger, Beate Deixelberger, Hans Manner
This paper addresses econometric challenges arising in panel data analyses related to IPAT (environmental Impact of Population, Affluence and Technology) models and other applications typically characterized by a large- and large- structure. This poses specific econometric complexities due to nonstationarity and cross-sectional error correlation, potentially affecting consistent estimation and valid inference. We provide a concise overview of these complications and how to deal with these with appropriate tests and models. Moreover, we apply these insights to empirical examples based on the IPAT identity, offering insights into the robustness of previous findings. Our results suggest that using standard panel techniques can lead to biased estimates, incorrect inference, and invalid model adequacy tests. This can potentially lead to flawed policy conclusions. We provide practical guidance to practitioners for navigating these econometric issues.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-18DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102945
Alberto Salvo , Qu Tang , Jing Yang , Peng Yin , Maigeng Zhou
China’s spatially discontinuous winter heating policy has been used to examine how sustained exposure to air pollution impacts health. This influential literature exploits quasi-experimental cross-sectional variation in atmospheric emissions in a geographically vast and populous nation. Our study introduces an alternative external definition of the winter heating boundary and takes advantage of an unprecedented expansion of pollution and mortality surveillance, covering at least 10 times more sites and finer-grained pollution particle sizes that are more relevant to health standards today. We estimate spatial discontinuities in pollution and mortality that shrink over time, consistent with tighter emissions regulations, higher quality medical care, and increased air quality disclosure to – and defensive behavior by – the public. We find that in 2013–2015 a 10-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 raised behaviorally inclusive mortality for cardiovascular and respiratory causes by 11% (95% confidence interval = 2–20%) and lung cancer mortality by 20% (95% CI = 4–37%).
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Pub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102943
Haibo Zhang , Corrado Di Maria , Bahar Ghezelayagh , Yuli Shan
In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of early climate policy in emerging economies by causally evaluating the impact of China’s Low-carbon City Pilot (LCCP) on city-level per-capita CO emissions and CO intensity of GDP over the period 2003–2017. The idiosyncrasies of the policy design pose significant challenges for causal identification, which we overcome within a synthetic control framework. Contrary to previous contributions, our results suggest that the LCCP had no significant impact on either carbon emissions or intensity. The main takeaway of our empirical investigation is that even in emerging economies, effective environmental policy requires transparent, quantifiable targets, and credible enforcement.
在本文中,我们通过因果关系评估了 2003-2017 年间中国低碳城市试点(LCCP)对城市人均二氧化碳排放量和 GDP 二氧化碳强度的影响,从而评估了新兴经济体早期气候政策的有效性。政策设计的特殊性给因果识别带来了巨大挑战,我们在合成控制框架内克服了这一挑战。与之前的研究相反,我们的研究结果表明,LCCP 对碳排放或碳强度均无显著影响。我们的实证调查得出的主要结论是,即使在新兴经济体,有效的环境政策也需要透明、可量化的目标和可信的执行。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102940
Pierre Mérel , Emmanuel Paroissien , Matthew Gammans
Recent years have seen a growing interest among empiricists in exploiting random weather fluctuations to identify climate change impacts, yet a clear understanding of the conditions under which short-run weather effects can reveal long-run climatic impacts is lacking. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions for weather fluctuations to systematically identify the marginal effect of climate on an economic outcome. Under these conditions, empirical estimates of local marginal weather effects flexibly trace out a common long-run response function to climate that can be used for non-marginal climate change counterfactuals. Our application considers the effect of weather on county-level agricultural GDP in the United States. Depending on model specification, agricultural GDP is predicted to decrease by 6%–10% under a 2 °C warming scenario.
近年来,实证主义者对利用随机天气波动来识别气候变化影响的兴趣与日俱增,但对短期天气效应能够揭示长期气候影响的条件却缺乏清晰的认识。我们得出了天气波动系统识别气候对经济结果边际效应的必要条件和充分条件。在这些条件下,当地边际天气效应的经验估计值可以灵活地追踪出气候的共同长期响应函数,该函数可用于非边际气候变化反事实。我们的应用考虑了天气对美国县级农业 GDP 的影响。根据不同的模型规范,预测在升温 2 °C 的情况下,农业 GDP 将下降 6%-10%。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-10DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102942
Stefano Clò , Francesco David , Samuele Segoni
Using a novel dataset of natural disasters affecting Italy from 2010 onward, we investigate the impact of hundreds of hydrogeological events on firms’ survival and performance. Despite being less extreme, these events are increasingly frequent and geographically widespread, this constituting a relevant but unexplored topic in the natural disasters literature. In order to assess the impact of multiple events occurred over several years, we implement a staggered difference-in-differences design that exploits the variation in the timing of the treatment. Our results show that hit firms have a 7.3% higher probability of exiting the market. Conditional on surviving, in the three years after the calamity, firms experience an average decline in their revenues and employment by −4.9% and −2.2%, respectively. These impacts are highest for micro-small, younger and low-tech firms.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-09DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102933
Antonia Kurz
I show how the exemption of small-scale emitting firms from emissions pricing results in within-country emissions leakage — an emissions price increase for the regulated firms prompts an increase in the emissions of the unregulated. I use a heterogeneous firm model in which a fixed share of firms is subject to emissions pricing. The firms at the lower part of the productivity distribution benefit from being exempted, such that the higher the emissions price, the more and dirtier firms can survive in the domestic market. Leakage is stronger if firms are exempted only if they emit less than a fixed threshold (as for the EU Emission Trading System) because some firms strategically bunch below the threshold, making the emissions price an even weaker tool to reduce total emissions. In environments with low social costs of emission or high fixed regulatory costs, an exemption may be justified; over time, however, the criteria for exemptions should be adjusted accordingly.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102937
Stefano Carattini , Béla Figge , Alexander Gordan , Andreas Löschel
Conflicting societal goals can lead to national and local policies that are at odds with each other. National policies promoting the adoption of solar photovoltaics may be counteracted by local policies defining the aesthetics of the built environment. As solar photovoltaic energy approaches grid parity globally, non-pecuniary barriers to the adoption of this important renewable energy source become increasingly salient. Using a unique survey of municipalities regarding such building codes and administrative data on all solar installations in Germany, a leader in solar adoption, we document the impact that municipalities amending their building codes to restrict solar installations, often with an eye toward preserving the historical nature of the town, has on solar adoption. We find that municipalities that implement solar policies have 10.4 percent less solar photovoltaic capacity than municipalities in the control group. We confirm our results when applying spatial techniques and analyzing the impact of such policies on regulated areas within municipalities.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102939
Pei Li , JunJie Wu , Wenchao Xu
When environmental regulations do not explicitly target agriculture, it becomes difficult to predict if and how this sector will react. In this study, we delve into this issue by scrutinizing China's flagship program designed to control industrial sulfur dioxide emissions. We employ the difference-in-differences method to analyze extensive agricultural data, quantifying the policy's impact on agriculture from both the intensive and extensive margins. Our results indicate that the policy led to an approximately 9% increase in agricultural value added. This growth mainly stemmed from shifts in land allocation and subsequent changes in fertilizer use, rather than from crop yield improvements. Variations in composite grain yields occurred due to shifts in the crop mix, not from yield improvements in specific crops. Overall, our study found that the policy boosted rural per capita net income by 11.6%.
{"title":"The impact of industrial sulfur dioxide emissions regulation on agricultural production in China †","authors":"Pei Li , JunJie Wu , Wenchao Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When environmental regulations do not explicitly target agriculture, it becomes difficult to predict if and how this sector will react. In this study, we delve into this issue by scrutinizing China's flagship program designed to control industrial sulfur dioxide emissions. We employ the difference-in-differences method to analyze extensive agricultural data, quantifying the policy's impact on agriculture from both the intensive and extensive margins. Our results indicate that the policy led to an approximately 9% increase in agricultural value added. This growth mainly stemmed from shifts in land allocation and subsequent changes in fertilizer use, rather than from crop yield improvements. Variations in composite grain yields occurred due to shifts in the crop mix, not from yield improvements in specific crops. Overall, our study found that the policy boosted rural per capita net income by 11.6%.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15763,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139748895","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}
Pub Date : 2024-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102936
Melanie I. Millar , Roger M. White
The objective of residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) programs is to increase environmentally friendly home renovations, like solar panel installations, for private residences by making financing more readily available. Local governments use municipal bond proceeds to finance PACE loans that are secured via a property tax lien on the affected residence and repaid through temporarily higher property taxes. Critics allege that these programs can stymy housing markets through lien-related risks that discourage buyers and lenders. Using data from Florida, we find support for these claims. Our analysis suggests that PACE program rollouts predict fewer home sales and weaker house price appreciation. We investigate the channel for these results and observe that mortgage lenders are less likely to approve loan applications in areas after local PACE programs are introduced. This even occurs for homes without PACE liens, which discourages housing market liquidity and drives down housing market returns. Our results emphasize the need for thoughtful policy design and implementation to avoid unintended, negative consequences of well-intentioned sustainability programs.
住宅物业评估清洁能源 (PACE) 计划的目的是通过提供更多的融资渠道,增加私人住宅的环保型房屋翻新,如太阳能电池板的安装。地方政府利用市政债券收益为 PACE 贷款提供资金,贷款以受影响住宅的房产税留置权为担保,通过暂时提高房产税来偿还。批评者认为,这些项目可能会通过与留置权相关的风险阻碍购房者和贷款者,从而扰乱房地产市场。利用佛罗里达州的数据,我们发现这些说法得到了支持。我们的分析表明,PACE 计划的推出预示着房屋销售量的减少和房价升值的减弱。我们调查了这些结果的产生渠道,发现在引入当地 PACE 计划后,抵押贷款机构不太可能批准该地区的贷款申请。这种情况甚至会发生在没有 PACE 留置权的房屋上,从而阻碍了住房市场的流动性,并导致住房市场回报率下降。我们的研究结果表明,政策的设计和实施需要深思熟虑,以避免用心良苦的项目产生意想不到的负面影响。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102940
P. Mérel, Emmanuel Paroissien, M. Gammans
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