Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills (Record no. 133745)

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International Standard Serial Number 1945-7782
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Personal name West, Jeremy
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Personal name 2024
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Personal name Marion, Justin
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Title Socioeconomic Disparities in Privatized Pollution Remediation: Evidence from Toxic Chemical Spills
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2024
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Extent 219-249
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Abstract Governments often privatize the administration of regulations to third-party specialists paid for by the regulated parties. We study how the resulting conflict of interest can have unintended consequences for the distributional impacts of regulation. In Massachusetts, the party responsible for hazardous waste contamination must hire a licensed contractor to quantify the environmental severity. We find that contractors' evaluations favor their clients, exhibiting substantial score bunching just below thresholds that determine government oversight of the remediation. Client favoritism is more pronounced in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods and is associated with inferior remediation quality, highlighting a novel channel for inequities in pollution exposure.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Hazardous Waste
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Neighborhood Characteristics
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Noise
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Regional Labor Markets
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Solid Waste
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Population
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220295">https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220295</a>
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Koha biblionumber 133745
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