Michael Greenstone

Papers

Do Housing Prices Reflect Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from More than 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
Janet Currie, Lucas Davis, Michael Greenstone and Reed Walker
December, 2012

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century
Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph Shapiro
December, 2012

Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon for Use in U.S. Federal Rulemakings: A Summary and Interpretation
Michael Greenstone, Elizabeth Kopits and Maryann Wolverton
Forthcoming in Review of Environmental Economics & Policy; this version March, 2011

Do Credit Market Shocks Affect the Real Economy? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and 'Normal' Economic Times
Michael Greenstone and Alexandre Mas
November, 2012

The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Michael Greenstone, John List and Chad Syverson
September, 2012

Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Olivier Deschênes, Michael Greenstone and Joseph S. Shapiro
July, 2012

Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impacts of Improved Cooking Stoves
Rema Hanna, Esther Duflo, and Michael Greenstone
April, 2012

Paying Too Much for Energy? The True Costs of Our Energy Choices
Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
February, 2012

Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap?
Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone
January, 2012

Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India
Michael Greenstone and Rema Hanna
July, 2011

Superfund Cleanups and Infant Health
Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone and Enrico Moretti
February, 2011: Forthcoming in American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings

An Economic Strategy to Renew American Communities
Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney
October, 2010; Hamilton Project, Brookings Institution

Towards an Emissions Trading Scheme for Air Pollutants in India: A Concept Note
Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan
August, 2010; Discussion Paper, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India

Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Million Dollar Plants
Michael Greenstone, Rick Hornbeck, and Enrico Moretti
April, 2010; published in the Journal of Political Economy, June 2010

Winter Heating or Clean Air? Unintended Impacts of China's Huai River Policy
Douglas Almond Jr., Yuyu Chen, Michael Greenstone and Li Hongbin
January 2009

Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program
Michael Greenstone and Justin Gallagher
January 2008; published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2008

Is the 'Surge' Working? Some New Facts
Programs and Data Used to Produce All Tables and Figures
Michael Greenstone
September 2007

Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Approaches to Environmental Economics
Michael Greenstone and Ted Gayer
July 2007; forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2009

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US
Olivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone
June 2007

The Causes and Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Michael Greenstone
April 2007

The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather
Olivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone
March 2007, American Economic Review

Civil Rights, the War on Poverty, and Black-White Convergence in Infant Mortality in the Rural South and Mississippi
Douglas Almond, Kenneth Y. Chay and Michael Greenstone
January 2007

The Value of Knowing
Michael Greenstone, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen and Paul Oyer
Summer, 2006

Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments
Michael Greenstone, Paul Oyer and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen
May 2006, Quarterly Journal of Economics

Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market
Kenneth Y. Chay and Michael Greenstone
April 2005, Journal of Political Economy

Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?
Michael Greenstone and Enrico Moretti
November 2004

Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970
Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone
October 2003

Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
Orley Ashenfelter and Michael Greenstone
May 2004, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings

Did the Clean Air Act Cause the Remarkable Decline in Sulfur Dioxide Concentrations?
Michael Greenstone
May 2004, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life
Orley Ashenfelter and Michael Greenstone
February 2004, Journal of Political Economy

The Clean Air Act of 1970 and Adult Mortality
Kenneth Chay, Carlos Dobkin and Michael Greenstone
December 2003, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 27(3)

The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession
Kenneth Chay and Michael Greenstone
August 2003, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(3)

Estimating Regulation-Induced Substitution: The Effect of the Clean Air Act on Water and Ground Pollution
Michael Greenstone
January 2003, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 93(2)

The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 and 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufacturers
Michael Greenstone
September 2001; Published in Journal of Political Economy, December 2002