The Long Arm of the Clean Air Act: Pollution Abatement and COVID-19 Racial Disparities
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Keywords
pollution; health; racial disparities;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
- Q53 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Air Pollution; Water Pollution; Noise; Hazardous Waste; Solid Waste; Recycling
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2020-07-20 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2020-07-20 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2020-07-20 (Health Economics)
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