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  Journal of Regional ScienceVolume 47 Issue 1, Pages 155 - 178 Published Online: 6 Feb 2007 © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 138K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  REGULATORY FEDERALISM AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS* *We are grateful to the referee and editor for helpful comments and suggestions. Conversations with James Andreoni, Shelby Gerking, Liesl Koch, Junsoo Lee, and Arik Levinson improved the manuscript. Sjak Smulders provided comments on an earlier version of this paper that improved its contents significantly. Copyright Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2007 ABSTRACTABSTRACT. Recent empirical work suggests that (i) incomes are converging through time, and (ii) income and pollution levels are linked. This paper weds these two literatures by examining the spatial and temporal distribution of pollution. After establishing that theoretical predictions about whether pollution will converge are critically linked to certain structural parameters, we explore pollution convergence using state-level data on two important pollutants—nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides—from 1929 to 1999. We find stronger evidence of converging emission rates during the federal pollution control years (1970–1999) than during the local control years (1929–1969). These results suggest that income convergence alone may not be sufficient to induce convergence of pollutant emissions. Received: February, 2006; revised: September, 2006; accepted: September, 2006. | 
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