• Too little too late? Nationwide carbon trading in China
  with Shuang Zhang
• The calm after the turbine: New evidence on wind farms and health
  with Niklas Rott and and Osea Giuntella · R&R: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
• Biodiversity co-benefits in carbon markets? Evidence from voluntary offset projects
  with Yiyuan Zhou · forthcoming: Review of Finance
• Rapid increases in methane concentrations following August 2020 suspension of the US methane rule
  with Xinming Du and Muye Ru · NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy: Cambridge University Press (March 2025)
• Bitcoin and carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from daily production decisions
  with Anna Papp and Shuang Zhang · Journal of Public Economics (October 2023)
• Retention heterogeneity in New York City schools [slides, submitted]
  with Ajin Lee and Amy Ellen Schwartz ·Fall 2023 NBER Education Program
• Large motherhood penalties in US administrative microdata
  with Yi Cheng and Cecilia Machado · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (July 2023)
• Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centres
  with Xinming Du and Anna Papp · Nature Climate Change (November, 2022)
↦ figure 2 ↤ pro-fossil sentiment by funder; "That money keeps flowing"↢Columbia Spectator (October 2023)
• Carbon Trading Pilot Programs in China and Local Air Quality
  with Shuang Zhang · AEA Papers and Proceedings (May, 2021)
• Ambiguous Air Pollution Effects of China's COVID-19 Lock-Down
  with Xinming Du, Valerie Karplus, and Shuang Zhang · AEA Papers and Proceedings (May, 2021)
• Livestock Plants and COVID-19 Transmission
  with Charles A. Taylor and Christopher Boulos · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (December, 2020)
• Land Reform and Sex Selection in China
  with Hongbin Li and Shuang Zhang · Journal of Political Economy (April, 2019)
• Childhood Circumstances and Adult Outcomes: Act II
  with Janet Currie and Valentina Duque · Journal of Economic Literature (December, 2018)
• Quantifying coal power plant responses to tighter SO2 emissions standards in China
  with Valerie Karplus and Shuang Zhang · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June, 2018)
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• Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net
  with Hilary W. Hoynes and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach · The American Economic Review (April 2016)
• Impacts of Classifying New York City Students as Overweight
  with Ajin Lee and Amy Ellen Schwartz · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March, 2016)
• In utero Ramadan Exposure and Children's Academic Performance
  with Bhashkar Mazumder and Reyn Van Ewijk · Economic Journal (December, 2015)
• Fetal Origins and Parental Responses
  with Bhashkar Mazumder · Annual Review of Economics (May, 2013)
• Son Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from South and East Asian Immigrants to Canada
  with Lena Edlund and Kevin Milligan · Population and Development Review (March, 2013)
• From Infant to Mother: Early Disease Environment and Future Maternal Health
  with Janet Currie and Mariesa Herrmann · Labour Economics (August, 2012)
• Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance During Pregnancy
  with Bhashkar Mazumder · American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (October, 2011)
• Killing Me Softly: The Fetal Origins Hypothesis
  with Janet Currie · Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2011)
• After Midnight: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Length of Postpartum Hospital Stays
  with Joseph Doyle · American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (August 2011) · California ≠ Germany
• Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
  with Hilary W. Hoynes & Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach · The Review of Economics and Statistics (May 2011)
• Human Capital Development Before Age Five · [nber wp version]
  with Janet Currie ·Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4b (2011)
• Public vs. Private Provision of Charity Care? Evidence from the Expiration of Hill-Burton Requirements in Florida
  with Janet Currie and Emilia Simeonova · Journal of Health Economics (January 2011)
• Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Development: Evidence from the 1959 to 1961 China Famine
  with Lena Edlund, Hongbin Li, and Junsen Zhang · University of Chicago Press (2010)
• Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical Care: Evidence from At-risk Newborns
  with Joseph Doyle, Amanda Kowalski, and Heidi Williams · The Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 2010);
  (2011 Garfield economic impact award , HCUP article of the year award, comment on comment.)
  
• Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden
  with Lena Edlund & Mårten Palme · spread of Chernobyl plume across Europe (IRSN video) · The Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 2009)
• Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Consequences of China's Huai River Policy
  with Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone, and Hongbin Li. The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (May 2009)
• Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi
  with Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone · conditionally accepted at The American Economic Review
• Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 U.S. Population
  Journal of Political Economy (August 2006)
• The Long-Run and Intergenerational Impact of Poor Infant Health: Evidence from Cohorts Born During the Civil Rights Era
  with Kenneth Chay [permanent working paper].
• The Costs of Low Birth Weight
  with Kenneth Chay and David Lee. The Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 2005)
• The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Subsequent Health Outcomes: An Analysis of SIPP Data
  with Bhashkar Mazumder. The American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings (May 2005)

Selected Work in Progress

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