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Michael Greenstone is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans several fields and topics related to economics, environmental science, and public health, focusing extensively on policy and its impacts.

Their work covers multiple main topics including:

  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Regulation and Compliance Studies
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Greenstone's main fields and subfields of study include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • General Health Professions
  • Strategy and Management

The scientist has published in various venues with notable frequency. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Nature

Recent papers by Michael Greenstone include:

  • Does Social Distancing Matter? (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Estimating a social cost of carbon for global energy consumption (2021, Nature)
  • Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from China's War on Air Pollution (2022, American Economic Review Insights)
  • China's War on Pollution: Evidence from the First 5 Years (2021, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy)
  • Do Credit Market Shocks Affect the Real Economy? Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and "Normal" Economic Times (2020, American Economic Journal Economic Policy)

Co-authorship has been an important aspect of Greenstone's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Trevor Houser
  • Solomon Hsiang
  • Robert E. Kopp
  • Michael Delgado
  • Tamma Carleton

Best Publications

  • Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River policy

    Yuyu Chen;Avraham Ebenstein;Michael Greenstone;Hongbin Li

  • The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather

    Olivier Deschênes;Michael Greenstone

  • The Impact of Air Pollution on Infant Mortality: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Pollution Shocks Induced by a Recession

    Kenneth Y. Chay;Michael Greenstone

  • Does Air Quality Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market

    Kenneth Y. Chay;Michael Greenstone

  • Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US

    Olivier Deschênes;Michael Greenstone

  • The Economic Impacts of Climate Change : Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather

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  • The Impacts of Environmental Regulations on Industrial Activity: Evidence from the 1970 and 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Census of Manufactures

    Michael Greenstone

  • Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

    Michael Greenstone;Rema N. Hanna

  • Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century

    Alan I. Barreca;Karen Clay;Olivier Deschenes;Michael Greenstone

  • Is There an Energy Efficiency Gap

    Hunt Volney Allcott;Michael Greenstone

  • Identifying Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Winners and Losers of Large Plant Openings

    Michael Greenstone;Richard A. Hornbeck;Enrico Moretti

  • New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China’s Huai River Policy

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  • Does Hazardous Waste Matter? Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

    Michael Greenstone;Justin Gallagher

  • Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves

    Rema N. Hanna;Esther C. Duflo;Michael Greenstone

  • Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program

    Meredith Fowlie;Michael Greenstone;Catherine Wolfram

  • Do Credit Market Shocks affect the Real Economy? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and ‘Normal’ Economic Times

    Michael Greenstone;Alexandre Mas;Hoai-Luu Nguyen

  • Environmental Regulations, Air and Water Pollution, and Infant Mortality in India

    Michael Greenstone;Rema Hanna

  • Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India

    Esther Duflo;Michael Greenstone;Rohini Pande;Nicholas Ryan

  • Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program

    Olivier Deschenes;Michael Greenstone;Joseph S. Shapiro

  • Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms: Experimental Evidence from India*

    Esther Duflo;Michael Greenstone;Rohini Pande;Nicholas Ryan

  • Climate Change and Birth Weight

    Olivier Deschênes;Michael Greenstone;Jonathan Guryan

  • Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings

    Janet Currie;Lucas Davis;Michael Greenstone;Reed Walker

  • Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?

    Michael Greenstone;Enrico Moretti

  • Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life

    Orley Clark Ashenfelter;Michael Greenstone;Michael Greenstone;Michael Greenstone

  • The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

    Michael Greenstone;John A. List;Chad Syverson

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Currie
Janet Currie Princeton University
Enrico Moretti
Enrico Moretti University of California, Berkeley
Rohini Pande
Rohini Pande Yale University
Robin Burgess
Robin Burgess London School of Economics and Political Science
Hunt Allcott
Hunt Allcott Stanford University
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University
Robert E. Kopp
Robert E. Kopp Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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