PUBLICATIONS


  1. Toxic Assets: How the Housing Market Responds to Environmental Information Shocks, Jeremy Moulton and Scott Wentland, Land Economics (accepted).

  2. Earlier Version as College of William & Mary Working Paper


  1. When Externalities Collide: Influenza and Pollution , with Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Niedell, and Gregor Singer.

  2. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Vol. 15, No. 2, April 2023

  3. NBER Working Paper 27982


  1. The Mortality Impact of Particulate Matter in China, with Yazhen Gong, Shanjun Li, and Guang Shi.

  2. Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, Vol. 117, Jan 2023


    1. A Thousand Cuts: Cumulative Lead Exposure Reduces Academic Achievement, with Alex Hollingsworth, Mike Huang, and Ivan Rudik.

    2. Journal of Human Resources (online preprint)

    3. NBER Working Paper 28250


    5.     Selected press coverage

    6.     Tradeoffs

    7.     The 74 Million


    1. Adaptation to Environmental Change: Agriculture and the Unexpected Incidence of the Acid Rain Program, with Alan I. Barreca.

    2. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 2022


      1. Long-Run Pollution Exposure and Mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program, with Alan I. Barreca and Matthew Neidell.

      2. Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 200, August 2021


      4.     Selected press coverage

      5.     The Weeds Podcast (The vaunted, versatile VAT)


        1. Technology and the Effectiveness of Regulatory Programs Over Time: Vehicle Emissions and Smog Checks with a Changing Fleet , with Ryan Sandler.

        2. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 587-618.


        1. Estimating Causal Effects of Particulate Matter Regulation on Mortality, with Alan I. Barreca and Matthew Neidell

        2. Epidemiology, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 160-167.


        1. Success is Something to Sneeze At: Influenza Mortality in Cities that Participate in the Super Bowl, with Charles Stoecker and Alan I. Barreca

        2. American Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 125-143.


        4.     Selected press coverage

        5.     New York Times

        6.     Scientific American

        7.     The Atlantic


        1. Under the Cover of Darkness: How Ambient Light Influences Criminal Activity, with Jennifer L. Doleac

        2. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 97, No. 5, pp. 1093-1103.


        4.     Selected press coverage

        5.     Significance Magazine, Royal Statistical Society

        6.     The Washington Post

        7.     National Public Radio


        1. Caution Drivers! Children Present. Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health, with Christopher R. Knittel and Douglas L. Miller

        2. Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 98, No 2, pp. 350-366.


        1. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? Using Sex Ratios to Measure Fetal Death Rates, with Charles Stoecker

        2. Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 41, pp. 30-45


        4.     Selected press coverage

        5.     Boston Globe

        6.     Freakonomics Blog

        7.     Huffington Post Blog


        1. Verifiable and Non-Verifiable Anonymous Mechanisms for Regulating a Polluting Monopolist, with James E. Prieger

        2. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 64, No. 3, pp. 410-426


        1. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Weaker: Prenatal Pollution Exposure and Educational Outcomes,

        2. Journal of Human Resources, Summer 2012, Volume 47, Number 3, pp. 826-850


        1. Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation, with Jason M. Lindo and Philip Oreopoulos

        2. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, April 2010, Volume 2, Number 2, pp. 95–117



        WORKING PAPERS IN REVISION AND REVIEW


        1. The Causal Effect of Heat on Violence: Social Implications of Unmitigated Heat Among the Incarcerated, with Anita Mukherjee, under review.

        2. NBER Working Paper 28987


        4.     Selected press coverage

        5.     National Public Radio

        6.     The Economist

        7.     Science News

        8.     Freakonomics, MD


        OTHER WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS



        1. Capitalization of Flood Insurance in Home Prices, with Michael Lovenheim, Corbin Miller, and Zihan Hu.


        1. Moral Hazard and Environmental Health Shocks, with Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, and Gregor Singer.


        1. Heat, Mortality, and Suicide in Prison, with Anita Mukherjee.


        1. Early Life Lead Exposure and Adult Suicide Rates.



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