时间：2022年10月18日8：00 – 9：30（北京时间）

题目:  Structural Transformation and Environmental Externalities

主讲人：Maulik Jagnani, 科罗拉多大学丹佛分校

举办方式：线上讲座，扫描文末二维码即可报名

主讲人简介：Maulik Jagnani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Colorado Denver. Prior to joining University of Colorado Denver, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. He graduated from Cornell University with a PhD in Applied Economics in 2019. His research focuses on microeconomic topics in environmental health and human capital in low-income countries.

Abstract:

Even as policymakers seek to encourage economic development by addressing misallocation due to frictions in labor markets, the associated production externalities -- such as air pollution -- remain unexplored. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show access to rural roads increases agricultural fires and particulate emissions. Farm labor exits are a likely mechanism responsible for the increase in agricultural fires: rural roads cause movement of workers out of agriculture and induce farmers to use fire -- a labor-saving but polluting technology -- to clear agricultural residue or to make harvesting less labor-intensive. Overall, the adoption of fires due to rural roads increases infant mortality rate by 5.5% in downwind locations.