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Environmental justice and toxic releases in urban Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
In this paper we present empirical evidence that major toxic releasing facilities in Mexico pollute more in poorer or marginalized neighborhoods. We are the first to investigate “environmental (in)justice” behavior utilizing ...
Are land values related to ambient air pollution levels?: hedonic evidence from Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2016)
The average resident of Mexico City suffers unhealthy levels of air quality for the most part of the year. Nevertheless, the uneven distribution of firms and road traffic across the city, together with wind patterns and ...
Do industries pollute more in poorer neighborhoods?: evidence from toxic releasing plants in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2015)
This paper provides the first, direct evidence that poorer communities in Mexico are associated with higher toxics pollution releases. We utilize previously unused, self-reported, plant-level annual database (from 2004 to ...
Informal or formal regulation: what works for toxics emitting industries in Mexico?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2017)
In this paper, we study whether formal regulatory pressure as opposed to informal community pressure are predominant factors in determining environmental compliance. Our sample of 2 889 major toxics releasing industries ...
Impact of upstream plant level pollution on downstream water quality: evidence from the Clean Water Act
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
This is the first study to assess whether pollutant inputs of major pint sources have a negative impact on downstream water quality, net of upstream pollution levels and controlling for location specific factors. We utilize ...
A natural experiment on US clean water act monitoring and compliance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2018)
In this paper we utilize the random treatment of reduction of complete stoppage of ambient water quality monitoring, to show that major polluters increase their pollution discharges relative to effluent limits in the ...
Environmental regulation in Mexico: evidence from inspections and fines of major toxic polluters
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2019)
In the Global South, local pollution problems have been studied mostly in the context of environmental inequity. This is the first paper to focus on regulatory actions taken by the Mexican environmental protection agency ...