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Domestic pollution havens: evidence from cancer deaths in border counties

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A new panel data set on cancer death rates is used to test the growth of the domestic pollution havens. The counties that border high regulation states have experienced increased death rates from cancers with an environment component as compared to the interior counties in the same low regulation states.

Author: Kahn, Matthew
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2004
Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Forecasts and trends, Mortality, Risk factors, Development and progression, Market trend/market analysis, Cancer

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Clearing the air in Atlanta: transit and smart growth or conventional economics?

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The proposal of expanding the existing transit network and promotion of an intensive use of the existing built-up-area to solve the problem of pollution and congestion in Atlanta is feasible, are discussed. Technology and congestion pricing are considered to be a good solution for this problem.

Author: Bertaud, Alain
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2003
Management dynamics, Georgia, Local and Suburban Transportation, Local Transit, Urban Transit Systems, Management, Economic aspects, Environmental aspects, Company business management, Atlanta, Georgia

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Environmental taxation, tax competition, and harmonization

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The tax competition problem is studied in the presence of transboundary pollution. It is shown that economic integration causes the firms to adopt the same or less polluting technologies.

Author: Cremer, Helmuth, Gahvari, Firouz
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Publication Name: Journal of Urban Economics
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0094-1190
Year: 2004
Public Finance Activities, Tax Administration, Analysis, Tax administration and procedure, Transboundary pollution

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Subjects list: Pollution control
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