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Papers
with Anna Papp and Shuang Zhang · Journal of Public Economics (October 2023)
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 (forthcoming)
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)
Retention Heterogeneity in New York City Schools with Ajin Lee and Amy Ellen Schwartz [under revision]
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)
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Press Coverage
Why are Americans getting shorter?
by Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, (December 2023)
Biden has a profound choice to make on L.N.G. expansion
by Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, (October 2023)
Saving coal - one Bitcoin at a time
by Maximilian Auffhammer, Berkeley Energy Institute Blog, (October 2023)
For a $1 rise in Bitcoin, a miner deals $3 to $6 of carbon emissions damages
by Breanne Deppisch, The Washington Examiner, (October 2023)
Motherhood shouldn't stifle women's income
by Sarah Green Carmichael, The Washington Post, (July 2023)
Fossil fuel companies donated $700m to US universities over 10 years
by Amy Westervelt, The Guardian, (March 2023)
Can `dirty money' pollute climate scholarship?
by Liam Knox, Inside Higher Ed, (December 2022)
Students tell their universities: keep fossil fuel companies out of climate research
by Ilana Cohen, The Nation, (November 2022)
How oil & gas funding distorts energy research
by Molly Taft, Yahoo! News, (November 2022)
Im Hintergrund agieren die saboteure
by Christian Stöcker, Der Spiegel, (November 2022)
OSHA issues a new Covid safety rule, but only for the health care industry
by Noah Scheiber, The New York Times (June 2021)
The Trump administration approved faster line speeds at chicken plants. Those facilities are more likely to have covid-19 cases
by Kimberly Kindy, Ted Mellnik and
Arelis R. Hernandez,The Washington Post (January 2021)
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Coronavirus outbreaks at meatpacking plants linked to 8 percent of early cases: study
by Zack Budryk,The Hill (November 2020)
Study Ties 6% to 8% of U.S. Covid Cases to Meatpacking Plants
by Mike Dorning, Bloomberg (November 2020)
A President looks back on his toughest fight
by Barack Obama  The New Yorker (October 2020)   [mentions 1918 Influenza paper]
Trump's tweets suggest he is sleeping less -- and that could be helping Biden
by Jason Murdock  Newsweek (October 2020)
The Coronavirus generation
by Jason DeParle  The New York Times (August 2020)
Coronavirus exposes the sickness of America's shoddy welfare state
by Eric Levitz  New York Magazine (March 2020)
Why we should be careful comparing the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak to the 1918
Spanish flu
by Dylan Matthews Vox (March 2020)
Protecting the poor from becoming poorer
by Krishna Rao  The Hindu (April 2020)
The Unheard Nerds: How economists can talk so policymakers will listen
by Karen Dynan  Foreign Affairs (November/December 2018)
Pollution by the numbers
by Kaushik Basu  Brookings Institution Op-Ed (November 2018)
Checking China's pollution, by satellite
by Peter Dizikes MIT News (June 2018)
Some good news on China's air pollution fight, but it comes with a warning
by Zhuang Pinghui South China Morning Post (June 2018)
Let them eat trump steaks
by Paul Krugman The New York Times (May 2018)
Jim Crow laws are gone but they're still making Black people sick
by Jason Silverstein Vice (April 2018)
The Republican war on children
by Paul Krugman The New York Times (December 2017)
The Trump budget's approach to welfare is based on discredited delusions
by Eric Levitz  New York Magazine (May 2017)
Supply-side economics, but for liberals
by Neil Irwin The New York Times (April 2017)
Why billionaires have more sons
by Zaria Gorvett
BBC (October 2016)
Down the generations
with Jolyon Jenkins BBC Radio interview (September 2016)
How morning sickness could predict your baby's gender
by Kate Pickles The Daily Mail (April 2016)
Study questions impact of NYC students' weight report cards
by Jennifer Peltz The Associated Press (March 2016)
Do schools' BMI screenings of students even work?
by Kelly Wallace CNN  (March 2016)
Six examples of the long-term benefits of anti-poverty programs
The White House blog (May 2015)
Prenatal care: Great expectations
The Economist (April 2015)
Prenatal health and life outcomes: Unequal beginnings
The Economist (April 2015)
Should you bring your unborn baby to work?
by Moises Velasquez-Manoff  The Atlantic (March 2015)
One-child policy didn't give China too many boys
by Adam Minter  Bloomberg (February 2015)
Inequality is a drag
by Paul Krugman  The New York Times (August 2014)
The hammock fallacy
by Paul Krugman  The New York Times (March 2014)
Prudence or cruelty?
by Nicholas Kristof  The New York Times (November 2013)
The unexpected ways a fetus is shaped by a mother's environment
by Lindsay Abrams  The Atlantic (May 2013)
More babies won't save the economy
by Amanda Marcote  Salon (December 2012)
Radiation and pregnancy
by David Leonhardt  The New York Times (March 2011)
Radiation might affect Japan's youngest
by Anggatira Gollmer  Deutsche Weller (March 2011)
In Japan, pregnant women have double the reason to dodge radiation
by Bonnie Rochman  Time Magazine (March 2011)
At risk from the womb
by Nicholas D. Kristof  The New York Times (October 2010)
Pregnant women who fast for Ramadan risk damage to their babies, study finds
by Sarah Cassidy and Jerome Taylor  The Independent (June 2010)
Side effects of 1918 flu seen decades later
by Adi Narayan  Time
Magazine (October 2009)
U.S. births hint at bias for boys in some Asians
by Sam Roberts  The New York Times (June 2009)
Male birth rate among Asian americans studied
  NPR's All Things Considered (transcript of interview with Michele Norris: April, 2008)
Thanks to Asians, even the US has got a skewed sex ratio
by Neelam Raaj The Times of India (April 2008)
Chernobyl fallout impaired mental development of Swedish infants
by John Bonner  Chemistry World (August 2007)
Nuclear energy: the jane fonda effect
by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt  The New York Times (September 2007)
Rich mothers 'have more sons'
by Roger Highfield  The Daily Telegraph (August 2007)
Womb woes
by JR Minkel  Scientific American (October 2006)
So big and healthy grandpa wouldn't even know you
by Gina Kolata  The New York Times (July 2006)
Me & honey
by Lindsay Powers  The New York Post (October 2005)
Biological historians trace ebb and flow
by David Wessel  The Wall Street Journal (September 2004)
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Mercifully Short
The Motherhood Penalty Is Alive and Well
with Yi Cheng and Cecilia Machado, Barrons (July 2023)
Favourability Towards Natural Gas Relates to Funding Source of University Energy Centres: Behind the Paper
with Xinming Du and Anna Papp (November 2022)
Russian Holidays Predict Troll Activity 2015-2017
with Xinming Du and Alana Vogel, PLOS One (March 2022)
Perinatal Health among 1 Million Chinese-Americans
with Yi Cheng, Economics & Human Biology (January 2021)
Later Bedtimes Predict President Trump's Performance
with Xinming Du, Economics Letters (December 2020)
Do Nonprofits Manipulate Investment Returns?
with Xing Xia, Economics Letters (June 2017)
Son-biased Sex Ratios in 2010 US Census and 2011-2013 US Natality Data
with Yixin Sun, Social Science & Medicine (March 2017)
An Adaptive Significance of Morning Sickness? Trivers-Willard and Hyperemesis Gravidarum
with Lena
Edlund, Michael Joffe, & Mårten Palme, Economics and Human Biology (February 2016)
Auspicious Birth Dates Among Chinese in California
with Christine Pal Chee, Maria Micaela Sviatschi, & Nan
Zhong, Economics and Human Biology (July 2015)
The Great Chinese Famine
The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (November 2014)
Fetal Origins of Lifetime Health
with Janet Currie and Katherine Meckel. Encyclopedia of Health Economics (March 2014)
Paternity Acknowledgement in 2 Million Birth Records from Michigan
with Maya Rossin. PLOS One (July 2013)
Lingering Prenatal Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on Cardiovascular Disease
with Bhashkar Mazumder, Kyung Park, Eileen M. Crimmins, and Caleb E. Finch. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (October 2009)
Son-biased Sex Ratios in the 2000 United States Census
with Lena Edlund. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 2008)
Trivers-Willard at Birth and One Year: Evidence from U.S. Natality Data 1983-2001 with Lena Edlund. Proceedings of the Royal Society B| Biological Sciences (August 2007)
Bob Dylan
Thunder on the mountain rolling to the ground
Gonna get up in the morning walk the hard road down.
Some sweet day I'll stand beside my king
I wouldn't betray your love or any other thing.
Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches
I'll recruit my army from the orphanages.
I been to St. Herman's church and I've said my religious vows
I've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows.
I've got the pork chops, she's got the pie
She ain't no angel and neither am I.
Shame on your greed, shame on your wicked schemes
I'll say this, I don't give a damn about your dreams .
                                                                  ♦ Thunder on the Mountain