Rapid industrialization and urbanization trends have brought many challenges, one of the
most acute of which is air pollution. Until recently, scholars have primarily focused on the toll …

Air pollution is a serious problem that affects billions of people globally. Although the
environmental and health costs of air pollution are well known, the present research …

We estimate the effect of short-term air pollution exposure (PM 2.5 and ozone) on several
categories of crime, with a particular emphasis on aggressive behavior. To identify this …

Does air quality influence road safety? We estimate the effect of increased air pollution on
the number of road traffic accidents in the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2014. To …

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 …

We provide first evidence of a link from daily air pollution exposure to sleep loss in a panel of
Chinese cities. We develop a social media-based, city-level metric for sleeplessness, and …

Inspired by the recent health science findings that air pollution affects mental health and
cognition, we examine whether air pollution can intensify the cognitive bias observed in the …

The physical environment is of critical importance to child development. Understanding how
exposure to physical environmental domains such as greenspace, urbanicity, air pollution or …

Why are the east sides of formerly industrial cities more deprived? To answer this question,
we use individual-level census data and create historical pollution patterns derived from the …

Using spatially disaggregated daily crime data for the City of Los Angeles, this paper
estimates the impact of ambient temperature on crime, and how this relationship varies …