Do industries pollute more in poorer neighborhoods? Evidence from toxic releasing plants in Mexico
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- Lopamudra Chakraborti & Michael Margolis, 2017. "Do industries pollute more in poorer neighborhoods? Evidence from toxic releasing plants in Mexico," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 37(2), pages 853-870.
- Lopamudra Chakraborti & José Jaime Sainz Santamaría, 2015. "Do Industries Pollute More in Poorer Neighborhoods? Evidence From Toxic Releasing Plants in Mexico," Working papers DTE 587, CIDE, División de Economía.
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industrial pollution; local income and unemployment effects; informal regulation; environmental justice; community pressure; toxic releasis in Mexico;JEL classification:
- Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2016-07-16 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-GER-2016-07-16 (German Papers)
- NEP-RES-2016-07-16 (Resource Economics)
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