Skip to Main Navigation

Documents & Reports

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results | Display results in sets of 10 | 20 | 50

Download:
No Records Found. Change your search criteria and try again. I cannot find the document I am looking for.
  • Heat and Law Enforcement (English)

    Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how high temperatures affect the decision making of police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that police reduce the number of...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10776 Document Date: May 16, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Bolotnyy,Valentin

  • Air pollution in Tbilisi Poverty and Distributional Consequences (English)

    Reducing outdoor air pollution can be achieved by strengthening air quality monitoring and regulating traffic and industrial emissions. Advancing existing initiatives by exercising more control over car...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 188676 Document Date: April 2, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baquie,Sandra,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Du,Xinming,Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso


  • Impacts and Sources of Air Pollution in Tbilisi, Georgia (English)

    Air pollution profoundly impacts welfare, causing more deaths globally than malnutrition, AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. In the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, air pollution levels exceed international...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10643 Document Date: December 12, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baquie,Sandra,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Du,Xinming,Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso


  • Air Pollution Reduces Economic Activity: Evidence from India (English)

    Exposure to fine particulate pollution (PM2.5) increases mortality and morbidity and reduces human capital formation and worker productivity. As a consequence, high levels of particulate pollution may...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10515 Document Date: June 30, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Choudhary,Rishabh,Sharma,Dhruv

  • Poverty and Distributional Consequences of Air Pollution in Tbilisi (English)

    Air pollution has profound impacts on welfare, causing more deaths globally than malnutrition, AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Poorer households are often more vulnerable due to residential sorting...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 183139 Document Date: June 15, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan,Baquie,Sandra,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Du,Xinming,Nozaki,Natsuko Kiso

  • Climate Risks, Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience in Nepal (English)

    The authors investigate key climate change hazards affecting Nepali households and livelihoods: river flooding, heat exposure, drought, landslides, and air pollution. The authors analyze the distributional...

    Document Type: Report Report No.: 183213 Document Date: June 2, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Amadio,Mattia,Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Bosch,Lander Sonia M,Kaila,Heidi Kristiina,Krishnan,Nandini,Molinario,Giuseppe Maria


  • Higher Levels of No-Till Agriculture Associated with Lower PM2.5 in the Corn Belt (English)

    No-till approaches to agricultural soil management have been encouraged as a means of reducing soil erosion, reducing water pollution, and increasing carbon sequestration. An understudied additional benefit...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10216 Document Date: October 20, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Lobell,David


  • Heat, Crime, and Punishment (English)

    Using administrative criminal records from Texas, this paper shows how heat affects criminal defendants, police officers, prosecutors, and judges. It finds that arrests increase by up to 15 percent on...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9909 Document Date: January 24, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Behrer,Arnold Patrick,Bolotnyy,Valentin