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Can urban pollution shrink rural districts?

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  • Tohru Naito
  • Tatsuya Omori

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This paper discusses how the externality of environmental damage affects the equilibrium properties of a simple overlapping generations model with multiple regions. Simulation results indicate that the environmental policy of the government decreases capital accumulation. When the government imposes an environmental tax on the urban sector, the urban-to-rural population ratio decreases, whereas the total fertility rate increases. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

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  • Tohru Naito & Tatsuya Omori, 2014. "Can urban pollution shrink rural districts?," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 73-83, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:lsprsc:v:7:y:2014:i:2:p:73-83
    DOI: 10.1007/s12076-013-0102-y
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    Keywords

    Environmental policy; Capital accumulation; Fertility; Population distribution; E61; J13; O52; R23;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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