Joshua Graff Zivin is Professor of Economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of Global Policy & Strategy and the Department of Economics. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and co-Director of the Global Health Institute at UCSD. In 2004-2005, he served as Senior Economist for Health and the Environment on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Prior to joining UCSD in 2008, he was an Associate Professor of Economics in the Mailman School of Public Health and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he served as the Director of the PhD Program in Sustainable Development.Professor Graff Zivin has published numerous articles on a wide range of topics in top economic, policy, and medical journals. His research interests are broad and include the areas of environmental, health, development, and innovation economics. Policy relevance serves as a guiding force behind all of this work.
Last year, the WHO revised its global air quality guidelines, recognising air pollution as “the single biggest environmental threat to human health” and noting that “[t]he burden of disea...
When it comes to pollution, there’s one thing we know for sure – it’s bad for our health. When there’s more pollution, more people end up in hospital (Lleras-Muney 2010), birth weights go...
