A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health
outcomes, often measured as deaths and hospitalizations. This literature has focused less …

Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on
the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated …

The year 2020 brought unimaginable challenges in public health, with the confluence of the
COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires across the western United States. Wildfires produce high …

The COVID-19 pandemic has put much of the world into lockdown, as one unintended
upside to this response, the air quality has been widely reported to have improved …

Recent work on socioeconomic health inequality has explored the possible determinants,
but there is a lack of empirical evidence examining the associations between environmental …

This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the
average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous …

Wildfires have increased in frequency and severity over the past two decades, threatening to
undo substantial air quality improvements. We investigate the relationship between wildfire …

China's coal-fired winter heating systems generate large amounts of hazardous emissions
that significantly deteriorate air quality. Exploiting regression discontinuity designs based on …

This study uses satellite data to detect agricultural straw burning and estimates its impact on
air pollution and health in China. We find that straw burning increases particulate matter …

Aim Wildfire burned area, fire size, fire severity and the ecological and socio‐economic
impacts of fire have been increasing rapidly in California in recent decades. We summarize …