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Replication Data for: Gone with the Wind: Federalism and the Strategic Location of Air Polluters

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Title Replication Data for: Gone with the Wind: Federalism and the Strategic Location of Air Polluters
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EBF7XW
 
Creator Monogan, III, James E.
Konisky, David M.
Woods, Neal D.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description In federal systems both state governments and firms have incentives to strategically locate polluting facilities where the environmental and health consequences will be borne as much as possible by residents of other jurisdictions. We analyze air polluter location in the United States using a spatial point pattern model, which models where events occur in latitude and longitude. Our analyses indicate that major air polluters are significantly more likely to be located near a state's downwind border than a control group of other industrial facilities, results that are robust to a wide variety of model specifications and measurement strategies. This effect is particularly pronounced for facilities with toxic air emissions. The observed pattern of polluter location varies systematically across states and time in ways that suggest it is responsive to public policy at both the national and state levels.
 
Subject Social Sciences
State politics
Public policy
Environmental policy
Free riding
Spatial analysis
Point pattern analysis
Federalism
 
Contributor Monogan, James