What Do Economists Have to Say about the Clean Air Act 50 Years after the Establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency

Bibliographic Data

ID4029715
AuthorsJanet Currie (0000-0003-0424-2966, Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.), Janet M Currie (0000-0002-9220-9113, Princeton University), Reed Walker (Reed Walker is the Transamerica Associate Professor of Business Strategy and Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, California.)
Year2019
Volume33
Issue4
Pages3-26
Publication date2019-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965
PublisherAmerican Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1257/jep.33.4.3
OpenAlexW2982329801
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Air quality in the United States has improved dramatically over the past 50 years in large part due to the introduction of the Clean Air Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency to enforce it. This article is a reflection on the 50-year anniversary of the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency, describing what economic research says about the ways in which the Clean Air Act has shaped our society-in terms of costs, benefits, and important distributional concerns. We conclude with a discussion of how recent changes to both policy and technology present new opportunities for researchers in this area

Air pollution · Air quality index · Business · Clean Air Act · Economics · Environmental law · Environmental policy · Environmental quality · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Sociology · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Law · Public Administration