dc.contributor.advisor | Cohen, Mark | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Anderson, Kathryn | |
dc.creator | Abraham, Caroline Elizabeth | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-01T00:10:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-01T00:10:44Z | |
dc.date.created | 2020-05 | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-19 | |
dc.date.submitted | May 2020 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10130 | |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation considers the health and labour market implications of the U.S. Clean Air Act. Chapter 1 exploits the exogeneous variation provided by the 1990 Amendment of the U.S. Clean Air Act in order to test the hypothesis that environmental regulation aimed at air pollution had a direct impact on adult mortality. Using data from 1987 to 2016, I find that the 1990 Amendment reduced the age-adjusted respiratory mortality rates by 14.2 % for counties that were in nonattainment for ozone, and 9.4 % for counties that were in nonattainment for particulate matter after controlling for lung cancer fatalities. Chapter 2 looks at the wage and employment effects of the regulations set forth by the 1990 Amendment in the pharmaceutical industry. I find that while the CAA had a positive impact on wages, the evidence on its effects on employment is more mixed. These effects disappear when county data is collapsed to the state level. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | JEL: Q53, Q58, K32, I10, J31, J38, J60. | |
dc.title | Essays on the Health, Wage and Employment Effects of the U.S. Clean Air Act | |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-07-01T00:10:44Z | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PhD | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Economics | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
dc.creator.orcid | 0000-0002-3365-4233 | |