In this review, we discuss three major contributions economists have made to our understanding of the relationship between the environment and individual well-being. First …
S Chen, B Gong - Journal of Development Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This article aims to identify the mechanism of how climate change affects agriculture through various channels and the mechanism of longer-run adaptation. Using a county-panel …
The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between …
" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However, while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …
Air pollution at any given time is unequally distributed across locations. Average concentrations of fine particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometers in diameter (PM2. 5) …
Importance The relationship between income and life expectancy is well established but remains poorly understood. Objectives To measure the level, time trend, and geographic …
We estimate the causal effects of acute fine particulate matter exposure on mortality, health care use, and medical costs among the US elderly using Medicare data. We instrument for …
G He, T Liu, M Zhou - Journal of Development Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This study uses satellite data to detect agricultural straw burning and estimates its impact on air pollution and health in China. We find that straw burning increases particulate matter …
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to …