A5007711718- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Noise Effects and Management
- Heavy metals in environment
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- School Choice and Performance
- Housing Market and Economics
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Labor Movements and Unions
Boston College
2025
Universidade de São Paulo
2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2021-2024
Northwestern University
2024
University of Illinois Chicago
2024
University of Chicago
2015-2024
Carnegie Mellon University
2015-2024
Lumos Labs (United States)
2024
Australian National University
2024
Cornell University
2018-2024
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed millions worldwide and hundreds of thousands in the United States. This article studies impact air pollution on pandemic mortality. analysis combines a panel dataset infant all-age mortality with novel measure based burning coal large sample U.S. cities. We estimate that contributed significantly to Cities used more experienced tens excess deaths relative cities less similar pre-pandemic socioeconomic conditions baseline health. Factors related poverty,...
Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne in North America. It caused by Borrelia burgdorferi and transmitted to humans blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis. The life cycle of LD vector, I. scapularis , usually takes two three years complete goes through stages, all which are dependent on environmental factors. Increases daily average temperatures, a manifestation climate change, might have contributed an increase tick abundance via higher rates survival. Additionally, these changes...
We measure the effects of firm policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. Non-Whites are less likely to be hired by high-wage firms, explaining about 20 percent wage gap for both genders. Firm-specific premiums non-Whites also compressed relative Whites, contributing another 5 that gap. A counterfactual analysis reveals two-thirds underrepresentation at higher-wage firms is explained race-neutral skill-based sorting. Non-skill-based sorting and differential setting largest...
The electric power sector in the United States faces many challenges related to climate change. On demand side, change could shift patterns due increased air temperatures. supply lead deratings of thermal units changes temperature, water and availability. Past studies have typically analyzed these risks separately. Here, we developed an integrated, multimodel framework analyze how compounding climate-change impacts on affect long-term planning decisions system. In southeast U.S., found that...
We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, apply it study the impact of change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when responding daily weather shocks, but may adjust long-run climatic changes. By simultaneously exploiting variation in climate, we identify both short- economic outcomes, measure adaptation directly as difference between those responses. As result, without making extrapolations responses over time or space,...
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We exploit novel data from brain-training games to examine the impacts of air pollution on a comprehensive set cognitive skills in adults.We find that exposure particulate matter (PM2.5)impairs adult function, and these effects are largest for those prime working age.These results confirm hypothesized mechanism workforce productivity.We also new tasks with low ability, suggesting increases inequality productivity.
Abstract This paper evaluates large-scale hydroelectric dams built in the United States during twentieth century. Combining panel event-study designs and synthetic control methods, two results stand out. First, constructed pre-1950 spurred short-run local growth, large part thanks to a ‘cheap-local-power advantage’, resulted remarkable long-run more than doubling population density after 50 years. Second, post-1950 had only modest effects on growth. The first result indicates agglomerative...
Abstract This paper examines the health tradeoffs associated with historical expansion in coal-fired electricity generation United States. We combine newly digitized data on all major power plants for period 1938–1962 two complementary difference-in-differences strategies. Coal-fired imposed large negative externalities that were partially offset by benefits of local generation. The impacts varied widely according to initial access and evolved as stock generating capacity expanded over...
This paper examines the causal impact of LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification on energy consumption among federally owned buildings that were retrofitted over period 1990–2019. Using a difference-in-differences propensity score matching approach, has two findings. First, despite savings being an explicit federal goal, LEED-certified retrofits did not have statistically significant average. Second, with higher scores had greater efficiency post-certification, and...
Abstract. South America is a global hotspot for land use and cover (LULC) change, marked by dramatic agricultural expansion deforestation. Developing high-resolution, long-term crop-specific data essential gaining deeper understanding of natural-human interactions addressing the impacts human activities on regional biogeochemical, hydrological cycles, climate. In this study, we integrated multi-source data, including high-resolution remote sensing model-based historical census to reconstruct...
High-profile incidents of police violence against Black citizens over the past decade have spawned contentious debates in United States on role police. This debate has played out prominently news media, leading to a perception that media outlets become more critical There is currently, however, little empirical evidence supporting this perceived shift. We construct large dataset local reporting from 2013 2023 10 politically diverse U.S. cities. Leveraging advanced language models, we measure...