Michael Greenstone

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pollution and, based on an elasticity of housing values with regard to TSP concentration ranging from -0.20 to -0.35, that the improvements in air quality between 1970 and 1980 attributable to the regulations imposed under the non-attainment designation caused an increase of housing values in non-attainment counties worth $ 45 billion. However, Greenstone also found that the Clean Air Act's non-attainment designation probably played only a minor role in the 80% reduction of

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Impact Lab where he is producing numerically-based estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change. Further, he developed the Air Quality Life Index™ that converts air pollution concentrations into their impact on life expectancy and co-founded Climate Vault, a 501(c)(3) that uses markets to allow institutions and people to reduce their carbon footprint.

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is extremely sensitive to seemingly minor choices about control variables, sample, and weighting. However, following Fisher et al.'s (2012) critique with regard to data coding errors and conceptual oversights in Deschênes and Greenstone (2007), Deschênes and Greenstone subsequently re-estimated climate change to

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Greenstone’s research has influenced policy domestically and internationally. His current work involves testing innovative ways that aim to increase developing countries' energy access and improve the efficiency of environmental regulations across the world. Greenstone is a co-director of the Climate

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Together with Olivier Deschênes, Michael Greenstone initially found that climate change will increase agricultural profits in the U.S. over 2010-2100 by an average of $ 1.3 billion per year (in 2002 U.S. dollars) and that the measurement of climate change effects on land prices (the hedonic approach)

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U.S. agricultural profits by $ 4.5 billion per year over 2010-2100. In another collaboration, Greenstone and Deschênes study the relationship between climate change and mortality and its mitigation through adaptation, and estimate that under "business-as-usual" scenarios climate change will increase

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to designate "non-attainment" counties in excess of that ceiling, and to impose strict air quality regulations on polluters in such counties, on housing prices, to study the relationship between housing prices and air quality. They found that the legislation was effective in reducing TSP air

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cleanups relative to those who narrowly missed qualifying. They find the reaction to be economically small and statistically insignificant, suggesting that the average local benefits of Superfund cleanups are likely to be much lower than the cleanups' average cost of $ 43 million.

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In environmental economics as well as in other areas, Greenstone has strongly advocated for the greater application of (quasi-)experimental methods to identify which policies are effective and efficient in terms of increasing social welfare.

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To investigate how does air pollution affects economic outcomes, Michael Greenstone and Kenneth Y. Chay used geographic variation in the reduction of air pollution due to the 1981-82 recession to estimate the impact of air pollution on

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the age-adjusted mortality rate in the U.S. by 3% by the end of the 21st century, though this effect may be strongly mitigated through populations adapting to the expected increase in the frequency of extreme temperature days.

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in the U.S.; they found that reducing TSPs by 1% results in a 0.35% decline in the county-level mortality rate of infants, with most of the reduction concerning newborn deaths, in particular among

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and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen use the extension of mandatory disclosure requirements under the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments from listed stock to

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How does the opening of a new manufacturing plant affect the productivity of incumbent manufacturing plants? Studying this question with

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