Ambient Air Pollution and the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort
Rabassa, Mariano J.
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Description
Title
Ambient Air Pollution and the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort
Author(s)
Rabassa, Mariano J.
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Brozović, Nicholas
Department of Study
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Discipline
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Sociology, Criminology and Penology
Language
eng
Abstract
In this dissertation, I show that transboundary pollution and penalties for noncompliance generate incentives for strategic behavior by state enforcement agencies: laxness in enforcement of polluting plants with higher potential to generate spillovers in the former and precautionary behavior which leads to non-monotonic enforcement in the latter. These findings help to explain, in part, why inspection rates are lower in heavily polluted areas than in areas with ambient pollution concentrations closer to the nonattainment threshold.
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