Paulina Oliva
Paulina Oliva is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department of the University of Southern California. Her research interests include development economics, and environmental and resource economics.
Content by Paulina Oliva
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Publication - Growth Brief
Suffocating prosperity: Air pollution and economic growth in developing countries
Air pollution is a silent killer that imposes substantial welfare and economic costs. Yet, people and governments underinvest in clean air. Policymakers must intervene with innovative solutions. Historically, economic growth and the externalities of growth have been studied and dealt with separately. However, we are now reaching the point where the externalities of...
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Blog post
Building the evidence base for developing countries: An example from the effect of pollution on infant health in Mexico
Pollution levels are orders of magnitude higher in lower-income countries than in the developed world. Studies of the health effects of pollution based on data from the latter will not necessarily be relevant to the former. This blog reports on the effect of air pollution on infant mortality in Mexico City. Significant effects found much larger than those found...
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Project
Contract and market design for land-based carbon offsets
Agricultural activities often create environmental externalities that are felt by individuals other than the landholder. A theoretically efficient approach to addressing these externalities involves changing prices to align private and public interests. Governments and international organizations have spent billions of dollars in recent years on incentives for land use...