Using the most comprehensive developing country dataset ever compiled on air and water pollution and environmental regulations, the paper assesses India’s environmental regulations with a difference-in-differences design. The air pollution regulations are associated with substantial improvements in air quality. The most successful air regulation resulted in a modest but statistically insignific...

The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 19731 were made in accordance with the powers granted to the Home Secretary by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The regulations, together with the Misuse of Drugs (Notification of and Supply to Addicts) Regulations 1973,2 came into operation on 1 July 1973. On the same date regulations 1, 2, 5, and schedule 1 of the Misuse of Drugs (Safe Custody) Regulations 19733 c...

Recent scholarship on regulatory oversight has focused on cost-benefit analysis of prescriptive regulations--regulations that restrict behavior such as pollution--and their use to cure market failures, and has overlooked the vast number of transfer regulations. Transfer regulations are regulations that channel funds to beneficiaries. These regulations are authorized by statutes that establish e...