Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

By Michael Greenstone, Rema Hanna. 2013

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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 insignificant decline in infant mortality. In contrast, the water regulations had no measurable benefits. The available evidence leads us to cautiously conclude that higher demand for air quality prompted the effective enforcement of air pollution regulations, indicating that strong public support allows environmental regulations to succeed in weak institutional settings.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Does the effect of pollution on infant mortality differ between developing and developed countries? evidence from mexico city (2016, positive): “Using comparable data, Greenstone and Hanna (2011) document air pollution levels that are five to seven times higher in India and China than in the US.”
Online Appendix: The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development (2015, positive): “In this subsection we create event-study graphs similar to Greenstone and Hanna (2014) for four types of properties, in which the event examined is the drilling of the first well.”
Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being? (2017, neutral): “…risks, such as cardiovascular diseases (Gallagher et al. 2010), respiratory diseases (Moretti and Neidell 2011; Beatty and Shimshack 2014), hospitalizations (Neidell 2009; Lleras-Muney 2010), and mortality (Jayachandran 2009; Chen et al. 2013; Greenstone and Hanna 2014; Tanaka 2015).”
The Adaptation Policy Paradox : the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation (2013, neutral): “India is also notorious for its difficulties in efficiently implementing environmental policies (Greenstone and Hanna 2011), which are at least partially related to the size of its territory, the size and heterogeneity of its population, and its institutional complexity (Lijphart 1996).”