What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality
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This project links administrative census microdata to spatially continuous measures of particulate pollution (PM2.5) first document and then decompose the key drivers convergence in black-white exposure differences. We use quantile regression show that a significant portion Black-White is attributable differential impacts Clean Air Act (CAA) Black White communities. Areas with larger populations saw greater CAA-related declines PM2.5. CAA can account for over 60 percent racial PM2.5 United States since 2000. (JEL J15, K32, Q51, Q53, Q58)
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Economic Review
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2640-205X', '2640-2068']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20191957