The 1918 influenza pandemic and its lessons for COVID-19

B Beach, K Clay, M Saavedra - Journal of Economic Literature, 2022 - aeaweb.org
This article reviews the global health and economic consequences of the 1918 influenza
pandemic, with a particular focus on topics that have seen a renewed interest because of …

Environment, health, and human capital

J Graff Zivin, M Neidell - Journal of economic literature, 2013 - pubs.aeaweb.org
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 …

Response and adaptation of agriculture to climate change: Evidence from China

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 …

Environmental justice: The economics of race, place, and pollution

S Banzhaf, L Ma, C Timmins - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019 - aeaweb.org
The grassroots movement that placed environmental justice issues on the national stage
around 1980 was soon followed up by research documenting the correlation between …

[图书][B] Multisystemic resilience: Adaptation and transformation in contexts of change

M Ungar - 2021 - books.google.com
" 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 …

Disparities in PM2.5 air pollution in the United States

J Colmer, I Hardman, J Shimshack, J Voorheis - Science, 2020 - science.org
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) …

The association between income and life expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014

R Chetty, M Stepner, S Abraham, S Lin, B Scuderi… - Jama, 2016 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The relationship between income and life expectancy is well established but
remains poorly understood. Objectives To measure the level, time trend, and geographic …

The mortality and medical costs of air pollution: Evidence from changes in wind direction

T Deryugina, G Heutel, NH Miller, D Molitor… - American Economic …, 2019 - aeaweb.org
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 …

Straw burning, PM2. 5, and death: Evidence from China

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 …

The effect of pollution on worker productivity: evidence from call center workers in China

TY Chang, J Graff Zivin, T Gross… - … Economic Journal: Applied …, 2019 - aeaweb.org
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 …