PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Brooks Depro
TI  - Did Smog Rules Influence Who Loses? Manufacturing Job Losses and the Great Recession
AID  - 10.3368/le.97.2.475
DP  - 2021 May 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 475--490
VI  - 97
IP  - 2
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/475.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/2/475.full
SO  - Land Econ2021 May 01; 97
AB  - Several studies of environmental policy have shown that clean air rules may lead to job losses. It is not clear, however, if the rules’ job effects vary with the business cycle. I show that during the Great Recession, rules that targeted smog pollution did influence which industries suffered job losses. The industries that were most likely to suffer faced higher costs associated with new smog controls. Compared with control groups, employment fell by an extra 3%. The results support claims that the new smog controls shifted the incidence of the job losses brought about by the Great Recession.