Polluting politics
| Authors: | Beland, Louis-Philippe; Boucher, Vincent |
| Abstract: | This paper estimates the causal impact of Democratic vs Republican governors on pollution. Using a regression discontinuity design, gubernatorial election data, and air quality data from US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we find that air pollution is lower under Democratic governors. |
| Document Type: | Article de recherche |
| Issue Date: | 7 November 2015 |
| Open Access Date: | 4 April 2018 |
| Document version: | AM |
| Permalink: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/17507 |
| This document was published in: | Economics Letters, Vol. 137, 176-181 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.007 North-Holland |
| Alternative version: | 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.11.007 |
| Collection: | Articles publiés dans des revues avec comité de lecture |
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