Joshua Graff Zivin Reports on the Effects of Air Pollution on Job Performance
When Ozone Drops, Farm Workers Step Up the Pace
11/09/2011
Dylan Walsh,
The New York Times
Opponents of stricter regulation of air pollution typically argue that jobs would be lost if the federal government tightened limits on industrial emissions of ozone. A new study presents a counterpoint: lower ozone levels seem to increase worker productivity.
“We wanted to flip the idea of regulation on its head and view it from another perspective,” said Matthew J. Neidell, an economist and a co-author of the study, published as a working paper by the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research. “Maybe pollution regulation can help jobs and economic growth.”
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Joshua Graff Zivin is Associate Professor of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Affiliated Faculty of Economics. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Research Director for International Environmental and Health Studies at the Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
