Essays on Income Inequality and the Environment

This dissertation considers two of the most pressing concerns of the current time, income inequality and exposure to pollution, and provides evidence that these two concerns may in fact be causally linked. In order to do this, I assemble novel datasets on income inequality and pollution exposure, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Voorheis, John
Other Authors: Cameron, Trudy Ann
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20478