Research Interests

• My fields of interest are environmental economics, health economics, and development economics.

• Broadly, I am interested in the study of interactions between environmental policies, public health, and economic activities, and their implications for economic development in low-income countries.

• In particular, I am interested in;

  • Effects of environmental pollution on human health

  • Evaluations of environmental policies regulating pollution emissions or automobile fuel economy

  • Valuation of environmental risk

  • Health policies and early childhood health

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Publications

• "North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of Battery Recycling"

  • With Kensuke Teshima and Eric Verhoogen

  • American Economic Review: Insights, 4(3): 271-288, 2022 [Lead article].

  • Online Appendix, Slides

  • [NBER WP#29146] [CEPR DP 16463] [BREAD WP 595] [IZA DP 14664]

  • Media Coverage: [The Weeds podcast (at 49:14)] [NBER Digest] [VoxDev] [VoxEU] [AEA Featured Chart] [AEA Top Ten Charts of 2022]

• "Fuel Economy and  the Price of Gasoline: Evidence from Fueling Level Micro Data"

  • With Christopher R. Knittel

  •  Journal of Public Economics, 202 (October), 2021.

  • Online Appendix

  • [NBER WP#26488] 

  • Media Coverage: [Energy Institute Blog], [The Economist]

• "When Tax Incentives Drive Illicit Behavior: The Manipulation of Fuel Economy in the Automobile Industry"

  •  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 104 (November), 2020

  • Online Appendix

• “Valuing Nuclear Energy Risk: Evidence from the Impact of the Fukushima Crisis on U.S. House Prices”

  • With Jeffrey Zabel

  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 88 (March): 411-426, 2018.

  • Online Appendix

• "Abolishing User Fees, Fertility Choice, and Educational Attainment"

  • With Takahiro Ito

  • Journal of Development Economics, 130(January): 33-44, 2018.

• "Environmental Regulations on Air Pollution in China and Their Impact on Infant Mortality" 

  • Journal of Health Economics, 42(July): 90-103, 2015.

  • Online Appendix

  • Media Coverage: [The Paper]

• "Does Abolishing User Fees Lead to Improved Health Status? Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa" 

  • American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6(3): 282-312, 2014.

  • Online Appendix

Working Papers

• "The Light of Life: The Effects of Sunlight on Suicide"

  • With Tetsuya Matsubayashi

  • Revised, June 2023. Submitted.

  • Online Appendix, [medRxiv]

• "Blowin' In The Wind: Long-Term Downwind Exposure to Air Pollution from Power Plants and Adult Mortality"

  • Revised, April 2022. Revised and resubmitted at Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

  • Online Appendix, [medRxiv]

• "Springing Forward and Falling Back on Health: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Acute Myocardial Infarction"

  • With Hideto Koizumi

  • Revised, May 2023. Submitted.

  • Online Appendix, [medRxiv]

• "Environmental Regulation and Industrial Performance: Evidence from China"

  • With Gary Jefferson and Wesley Yin

  • Old version

• "Uncovering the Market Price of Bribes: Information, Competition, and Corruption in India" 

  • Revised, April 2014.