The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic
opportunity and challenges, like contagious disease and congestion, because proximity …

Intermittent monitoring of environmental standards may induce strategic changes in polluting
activities. This paper documents local strategic responses to a cyclical, once-every-six-day …

This study assesses the health risks associated with drinking water contamination using
variation in the timing and location of shale gas development (SGD). Our novel dataset …

Economic and ecological systems are closely interlinked at a global and a regional level,
offering a broad variety of important research topics in environmental and resource …

Air pollution has a detrimental impact on population health, but the effectiveness of policy
measures targeting pollution is underexplored. I exploit the natural experiment generated by …

Importance Children experiencing poverty are more likely to experience worse health
outcomes, including injury, chronic illness, worse nutrition, and poorer sleep. The extent to …

Poverty is strongly associated with worse health across countries and within countries
across individuals. However, not all poor individuals suffer from poor health: the effects of …

A fundamental assumption about human behavior forming the backbone of trait theories is
that, to some extent, individuals behave consistently across structurally comparable …

Many environmental hazards produce health effects that take years to arise, but
quasiexperimental studies typically measure outcomes and treatment over short time …

Leaded gasoline is still used globally for aviation and automotive racing. Exploiting
regulatory exemptions and a novel quasi-experiment, we find that leaded gasoline use in …