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How Do Energy Prices, and Labor and Environmental Regulations Affect Local Manufacturing Employment Dynamics? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

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  • Matthew E. Kahn
  • Erin T. Mansur

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Manufacturing industries differ with respect to their energy intensity, labor-to-capital ratio and their pollution intensity. Across the United States, there is significant variation in electricity prices and labor and environmental regulation. This paper uses a regression discontinuity approach to examine whether the basic logic of comparative advantage can explain the geographical clustering of U.S. manufacturing. Using a unified empirical framework, we document that energy-intensive industries concentrate in low electricity price counties, labor-intensive industries avoid pro-union counties, and pollution-intensive industries locate in counties featuring relatively lax Clean Air Act regulation. We use our estimates to predict the likely jobs impacts of regional carbon mitigation efforts.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 16538.

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Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:16538

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  1. The WSJ on the Costs of State Level Carbon Cap & Trade
    by Matthew E. Kahn in Environmental and Urban Economics on 2011-06-03 14:51:00
  2. Understanding Rising Political Polarization on Climate Change
    by Matthew E. Kahn in Environmental and Urban Economics on 2011-05-07 16:53:00
  3. A Response to Fellow Climate Change Nerds
    by Matthew E. Kahn in Environmental and Urban Economics on 2010-12-28 21:18:00
  4. Unions and Economic Growth
    by Matthew Kahn in the reality-based community on 2011-02-28 15:20:26
  5. My OP-ED Piece about California's Anti-Carbon Legislation
    by Matthew Kahn in Environmental and Urban Economics on 2012-08-16 15:30:00
  6. Will AB32 Lead to Manufacturing Job Loss in California?
    by Matthew E. Kahn in The Reality-Based Community on 2013-01-19 18:53:27
  7. Mexico as a Lead Pollution Haven
    by Matthew E. Kahn in Legal Planet on 2013-02-09 16:05:09
  8. IZA's New Environment and Employment Group
    by Matthew Kahn in Environmental and Urban Economics on 2013-04-23 17:33:00
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  2. Corey Lang, 2012. "The Dynamics of House Price Capitalization and Locational Sorting: Evidence from Air Quality Changes," Working Papers 12-22, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
  3. Zhang, Chuanchuan, 2012. "结婚年龄与婚姻的稳定性：来自断点回归的证据
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