Mentions, Writings & Interviews (by topic)
Pollution and Productivity
Best Air Purifiers for Your Home Office, Consumer Reports, March 25, 2022
The economic case for fighting pollution to boost productivity, Financial Times, September 17, 2019.
How Pollution Can Hurt the Health of the Economy, The New York Times, November 27, 2018.
Welche Dosis macht das Gift? (in German) Deutschlandfunk (German Public Radio), July 29, 2018
Clean Air Is Good for Your Health and Good for the Economy, Truthout, May 17, 2018
Auch leichte Luftverschmutzung schadet (in German), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), May 1, 2018
How air pollution affects office workers-and the economy, The Economist, October 5 2016
Pollution is making it harder for office workers to be productive, Yahoo! Finance, October 3, 2016
Air Pollution Is Making Office Workers Less Productive, Harvard Business Review, September 29, 2016
Air pollution takes its toll on productivity even for those with desk jobs, PBS NewsHour September 23, 2016
The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity, NBER Digest, September 2016
Impact of pollution on worker productivity, VoxEU (CEPR Policy Portal), July 15, 2016
The hidden toll of air pollution on office workers, The Washington Post, June 14, 2016
Pollution Affects Labor Productivity, Business Insider, June 20, 2015
New research shows air pollution might make you bad at your job, The Washington Post, March 10, 2014
Pollution and Productivity, PERC Policy Brief, December 4, 2013
How air pollution impacts worker productivity, ZDNet, December 19, 2012
Ozone levels have sizeable impact on worker productivity, Science Daily, December 18, 2012
When ozone drops, farm workers step up the pace, New York Times (Green Blog), November 9, 2011
The Impact of Ozone Pollution on Worker Productivity, NBER Digest, September 2011
Air Pollution Undermines Labor Productivity, Think Progress, May 3, 2011
Pollution and Health
Pollution, the Flu Shot, and Hospitalizations, Econofact, October 6, 2021
When externalities collide: influenza and pollution, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, June 28 2021
The Dynamics of Air Pollution Impacts, NBER Reporter, June 2017
Reducing pollution should make children more productive and healthier, Child and Family Blog, August 19, 2016
Asthmatics still suffering from 1952 smog, The Times (of London), July 19, 2016 (page 2)
A lifetime later, a smog attack's full cost is seen, NPR marketplace, July 8, 2016
Pollution exposure can raise flu risk, Mint, November 12, 2020
The Long-Run Effects of Pollution Exposure on Mortality, NBER Bulletin on Aging & Health, September 2017
Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior, NBER Digest, August 2009
Air Pollution and Infant Health, NBER Digest, February 2009
Air Pollution and Infant Mortality, PERC Policy Brief, December 1, 2006
The Effect of Air Pollution on Infant Health, NBER Bulletin on Aging & Health, June 2004
What Smog Alerts Might Teach Ridge About Colored Warnings, Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2002
Climate Impacts
How Heat and Air Pollution Affect Our Productivity, The Sweaty Penguin (pbs.org), October 28, 2021
Health at COP26, The Lancet World Report, October 23, 2021
How does climate change affect workers' productivity? Economics Observatory, October 20, 2021
In hot weather, outdoor laborers work less-when economy is growing, Phys.org, August 25, 2021.
Paper finds a surprising link between warmer temperatures and math test scores, The Washington Post, May 12, 2015
Nuclear Energy
Consequences Dramatiques (in French), Atlantico, December 7, 2022
Conversation with James Pethokoukis about unintended consequences of rejecting nuclear power, Faster, Please! The Podcast, October 20, 2022
Nuclear Power Isn't Perfect. Is It Good Enough? Freakonomics Radio, September 21, 2022
Be Cautious with the Precautionary Principle: Evidence from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident, Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy, April 19, 2020
Fukushima: las más de 1.200 muertes que causó el accidente nuclear (y que no estuvieron relacionadas con la radiación) BBC News Mundo (in Spanish), November 20, 2019
Was shutting Japan's reactors deadlier than the Fukushima disaster? The Economist, November 7, 2019
Inattention
Among Umpires, Calls Improve When the Stakes Are High, NBER Digest, October 2021
PROOF POINTS: Three strikes and you're out, The Hechinger Report, July 5 2021
Effectively Wild Episode 1715: It's Academic, FanGraphs Baseball, July 2, 2021
The importance of being beautiful, shifting blame, and bad calls on the baseball diamond, The Boston Globe, June 24, 2021
Coming attractions from The Weeds, Podcast Episode on Podbay, June 29, 2021
What Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, and MLB umpires can teach us about making better decisions Fortune, June 23, 2021
Oral Health
The Economics of Teeth, and Other Beauty Premiums, Freakonomics, May 26, 2008
The Economics of Good Oral Hygiene, Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2008
The economic value of teeth, Marginal Revolution, October 31, 2007
I Love Your Smile - Or, Discrimination In The Workplace, HuffPost Life, December 6, 2017
Having Good Teeth Can Pay Off, NBER Digest, November 2008
Primary Sources, The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2008