Seminario "The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity"

Miércoles 26 de abril, 17h

Presentado por Joshua Graff Zivin

Paper abstract
This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts. We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity. These results suggest that, in contrast to common characterizations of environmental protection as a tax on producers, environmental protection can also be viewed as an investment in human capital, and thus a tool for promoting economic growth.

Joshua Graff Zivin holds dual faculty positions at the School and UC San Diego’s Department of Economics, exemplifying his multidisciplinary research. 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.

Much of his current work is focused on three distinct areas of research: the relationship between the environment, health and human capital, the economics of innovation with a particular eye toward the role of institutions, social networks and financial incentives, and the design of health interventions and their economic impacts.

Graff Zivin is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently serves as co-director of UC San Diego’s Global Health Institute and research director for International Environmental and Health Studies at the UC Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation.

After receiving his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, he was an associate professor at the Mailman School of Public Health and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he served as director of their Ph.D. program in sustainable development.


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