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The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity
- Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew J. Neidell
- Economics, Medicine
- The American economic review
- 1 April 2011
Environmental protection is typically cast as a tax on the labor market and the economy in general. Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of… Expand
Superstar Extinction
- Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin, Jialan Wang
- 1 December 2008
We estimate the magnitude of spillovers generated by 112 academic "superstars" who died pre- maturely and unexpectedly, thus providing an exogenous source of variation in the structure of their… Expand
Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change
- Joshua Graff Zivin, M. Neidell
- Economics
- Journal of Labor Economics
- 1 February 2010
We estimate the impacts of temperature on time allocation by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in temperature over time within counties. Temperature increases at the higher end of the… Expand
Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Marginal Emissions: Implications for Electric Cars and Other Electricity-Shifting Policies
- Joshua Graff Zivin, M. Kotchen, Erin T. Mansur
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2012
In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes account of the… Expand
Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences
- Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin, G. Manso
- Economics, Political Science
- 1 October 2009
Despite its presumed role as an engine of economic growth, we know surprisingly little about the drivers of scientific creativity. In this paper, we exploit key differences across funding streams… Expand
Environment, Health, and Human Capital
- Joshua Graff Zivin, M. Neidell
- Economics
- 1 April 2013
In this review, we discuss three major contributions economists have made to our understanding of the relationship between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing… Expand
Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers
- T. Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross, M. Neidell
- Environmental Science
- 1 February 2014
We study the effect of outdoor air pollution on the productivity of indoor workers at a pear-packing factory. We focus on fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a harmful pollutant that easily penetrates… Expand
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status
- Samuel R. Dastrup, Joshua Graff Zivin, D. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn
- Economics, Business
- 1 July 2011
This study uses a large sample of homes in the San Diego area and Sacramento, California area to provide some of the first capitalization estimates of the sales value of homes with solar panels… Expand
The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity: Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China
- T. Chang, Joshua Graff Zivin, Tal Gross, M. Neidell
- Engineering, Economics
- 1 June 2016
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily… Expand
Public R&D Investments and Private-Sector Patenting: Evidence from NIH Funding Rules
- Pierre Azoulay, Joshua Graff Zivin, D. Li, D. Li, Bhaven N. Sampat
- Economics, Medicine
- The Review of economic studies
- 1 January 2015
We quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use… Expand