Regulatory Federalism and Environmental Protection in the United States
研究了美国环境政策中监管联邦主义的两个方面：州环境质量随收入增长而改善，以及里根新联邦主义政策下环境质量并未下降，未出现“逐底竞争”。
In this paper we address two aspects of regulatory federalism in U.S. environmental policy. First, we suggest that environmental quality in U.S. states responds positively to increases in income. Second, we provide evidence that environmental quality did not decline when President Reagan's policy of new federalism returned responsibility for many environmental regulations to the states. Thus, state environmental quality appears to reflect more than just the dictates of federal policy. Additionally, we find that a “race to the bottom” in environmental quality did not materialize in the 1980s.