The Environmental Inequality Lab
@en_equality_lab
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Data-driven research on how the environment influences economic opportunity, poverty, and inequality in the U.S. and around the world. #MoreThanGoodIntentions
Joined July 2020
How does environmental quality affect economic opportunity, poverty, and inequality?
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We're Hiring! Come and work with us on our research and public facing work to better understand the extent, causes, and consequences of environmental inequality!.
The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: @econ_ra @predoc_org @AereOrg.
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The Environmental Inequality Lab Team have been working to build frameworks for real-time analysis of natural disasters and extreme weather events. The goal is to forecast vulnerability. Identifying who, rather than just where, will be exposed.
We have now finalized our post-landfall report for Hurricane Milton (took us longer than expected, but we'll be quicker next time). Identifying who is exposed is crucial to developing targeted, efficient, and equitable responses.
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Great work from the Environmental Inequality Lab team to provide real-time analysis of exposed populations in the wake of Hurricane Debby! An important tool for decision-makers going forward! Stay tuned for more on the gridded-EIF and future real-time analyses!.
Super exciting to see the fruits of the work we've been doing on the new privacy-protected gridded Environmental Impacts Frame being! We document the demographics of individuals exposed to Hurricane Debby in real-time!.
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RT @JonathanColmer: Thanks to @MichelsonEvan and the @SloanFoundation for supporting our work on the distributional consequences of the Cle….
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We are delighted that our research was cited in the 2024 Economic Report of the President. You can read more about our research on the clean energy transition here
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Come work with us!.
#EconTwitter We’re excited to be hiring a pre-doctoral research fellow in environmental economics starting summer/fall 2024! Apply here: @econ_ra @predoc_org @AereOrg @en_equality_lab Please retweet/apply!.
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A fantastic session, with great presentations from Eleanor Krause, Eva Lyubich, and Suvy Qin! Standing room only! Thanks for all the great questions! #AERE2023.
Welcome to Portland, economists!. The sessions are packed and the conference is off to a great start! . Tag your tweets and photos with #AERE2023 🍃
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We're all looking forward to another fantastic @AereOrg conference and seeing all the amazing work everyone is doing!.
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Finally, @JonathanColmer will present new work (joint with @MarshallBBurke, @john_voorheis, and Cameron Scalera) exploring how increasing wildfire activity has affected pollution disparities in the United States.
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During the last session on Friday, @tridevichakma (@Harvard), another of our amazing grad students, will present her job market paper, "The Effects of Zoning on Urban Heat and Racial Disparities in Heat Exposure", a exploring the causes of racial heat disparities.
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At 10:15am on Friday, Tugba Somuncu will present work (joint with Lab co-founder @john_voorheis and @irenejacqz) on the earnings effects of early-life exposure to "forever chemicals", the theme of this year's @AereOrg conference!.
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Finally, Suvy Qin (@UCBerkeley), another of our amazing grad students, will be presenting new work (joint with @JonathanColmer, @john_voorheis, & Reed Walker) exploring the extent to which environmental inequality = income inequality.
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Then, Eva Lyubich (@uscensusbureau) will be presenting new work (joint with @JonathanColmer and @john_voorheis) on how employment, earnings, and economic opportunities from clean and dirty jobs have been distributed during the early years of the clean energy transition.
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First, Eleanor Krause (@Harvard), one of our amazing grad students, will be presenting her job market paper "Job Loss, Selective Migration, and the Accumulation of Disadvantage: Evidence from Appalachia's Coal Country", exploring the persistent effects of the decline of coal.
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We have a new working paper out "Building the Prototype Environmental Impacts Frame" It provides an overview of the new microdata infrastructure that we've been building to study the distribution, causes, and consequences of environmental hazards & amenities in the United States!.
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RT @learncollider: Looking forward to this week's @InequaliTalks and hearing one of our affiliates, @JonathanColmer of UVA & @en_equality_l….
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Tightening standards marginally isn’t going to do very much. Wildfire activity, for good reason, is excluded from NA designations. Historically we've undervalued the benefits and overestimated the costs of more stringent environmental regulations.
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If we remove the wildfire component, 137 new counties would be in non-attainment using the lower 8ug/m3 cutoff. If we use the higher proposed cut-offs the comparisons are: 49 vs. 33 for >9ug/m3; 18 vs. 10 for >10ug/m3; 8 vs. 6 for > 11ug/m3.
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In ongoing work we are exploring the implications of increasing wildfire activity for pollution disparities. Following the announcement our team calculated that 301 new counties would be above the non-attainment threshold using an 8ug/m3 cutoff based on 2018-20 averages.
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The @EPA has proposed new Air Quality Standards for fine particulate matter, which is great news. Part of the challenge will be how they grapple with increasing contribution of wildfire smoke to PM.
epa.gov
EPA News Release: EPA Proposes to Strengthen Air Quality Standards to Protect the Public from Harmful Effects of Soot
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