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Egg-timer session: Non-market based instruments Location: Auditorium H Session Chair: Fredrik Carlsson, University of Gothenburg | |
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Who bears the environmental cost of urban agglomeration? 1: University of Montpellier, France; 2: Center for Environmental Economics - Montpellier (CEE-M) This article investigates the effects of urban agglomeration on inequalities in air pollution exposure in France. Using detailed data at a very fine scale on income and concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and O3, the study finds that greater urban agglomeration increases the likelihood that poorer house- holds experience higher chronic exposure to PM10, PM2.5, and NO2 com- pared to wealthier households. In contrast, urban agglomeration decreases the probability of poorer households being chronically more exposed to O3 than their wealthier counterparts. These findings are robust to instrumental variable techniques, employing historical population density and a novel in- strument based on World War I fatality rates. The disparities may partially be explained by wealthier households relocating from city centers to suburban ar- eas, thereby avoiding central urban pollution (NO2, PM2.5, and PM10) while encountering suburban pollution (O3). This research highlights how urban agglomeration shapes environmental inequities, demonstrating that the most disadvantaged urban populations tend to bear a disproportionate burden of environmental congestion costs. | |