Polluting Politics

Louis-Philippe Beland and Vincent Boucher

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Abstract: This paper estimates the causal impact of party affiliation (Republican or Democrat) of U.S. governors on pollution. Using a regression discontinuity design, gubernatorial election data, and air quality data from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), we find that pollution is lower under Democratic governors. We identify that this is mostly due to environmental policies enacted by Democratic governors.

Keywords: Political Parties; Pollution; Air Quality; Regression Discontinuity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 Q53 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-ene, nep-env and nep-pol
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