Research

Research

Published Papers:

“The Long Run Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations: Evidence from Transitory Variation in Pollution” (joint with Avraham Ebenstein and Victor Lavy).  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8 (4): 36-65, 2016

“Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship Between Air Pollution and Crime " (joint with Malvina Bondy and Lutz Sager) Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 7 (3), 555-585, 2020

“Urban Density and COVID-19: Understanding the US Experience" (joint with Felipe Carozzi and Sandro Provenzano). The Annals of Regional Science. 28:1-32. 2022

Dirty Density: Air Quality and Urban Density of American Cities" (joint with Felipe Carozzi)  - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 118, 102767. 2023

“The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Risk Maps and the Housing Market"  (joint with Ted Pinchbeck ,Nikodem Szumilo and Enrico Vanino). Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10 (6), 1439-1473, 2023

Air Pollution and Respiratory Infectious Diseases (with Lutz Sager and Sandro Provenzano) - Environmental and Resource Economics 1-13. 2024

Completed WORKING Papers:

"Some Like it Cold: The Persistent Cost of Higher Temperatures in European Economic Sectors" (joint with Ben Groom and Manuel Linsenmeier) - Reject and Resubmit

Putting Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to the Test: The Effect of London's LEZ on Education (with Antonio Avila and Brian Shields) 

“The Contemporaneous Effect of Indoor Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the UK"  

“The Impact of Short Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution on Cognitive Performance and Human Capital Formation” (joint with Avraham Ebenstein and Victor Lavy). NBER Working Paper # 20648.

Selected work in progress:

Making the Invisible Visible: The Impact of Real-Time Feedback on Indoor Air Pollution (with Robert Metcalfe)

The Effects of Air Pollution on Inventor Productivity (with Ina Drouven and Eugenie Dugoua)

Can Apps Save the Planet? the Roles of Apps in Urban Mobility (with Michael Guzzardi, Vincent Thorne and Hendrik Wolff)

Air Pollution and Population Health (with Gabriella Conti, Elisabetta De Cao and Ted Pinchbeck)