We examine how mandatory disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) impacts firm
performance and social externalities. Our analysis exploits China's 2008 mandate requiring …

We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect
impacts of assigning firms to public or private citizen appeals when they violate pollution …

Using data from Pennsylvania and an array of empirical techniques to control for
confounding factors, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from nearby …

Regulatory oversight of toxic emissions from industrial plants and understanding about
these emissions' impacts are in their infancy. Applying a research design based on the …

In 2013, China launched a landmark program to monitor air quality and disclose real-time
data, significantly increasing the public's access to and awareness of pollution information …

The first part of the lecture will review some of the evidence about the determinants of health
at birth. I argue that individuals may start with very different endowments at birth because of …

We study how parent liability for subsidiaries' environmental cleanup costs affects industrial
pollution and production. Our empirical setting exploits a Supreme Court decision that …

This article reviews research on the economics of information in real estate. It covers equity
investment in private and public markets and intermediation by brokers. The review shows …

We estimate the willingness to pay for reductions in crime risk using the location and move-
in dates of sex offenders. We find significant effects of sex offenders' locations that are …

We estimate the impact of a carbon tax on manufacturing plants using panel data from the
UK production census. Our identification strategy builds on the comparison of outcomes …