Title: The Effects of Ambient Air Pollution and Pollution Exposure on Inattention

Speaker: Jinhua Zhao, Cornell University

Time: 2025/11/05 10:00-11:30

Venue: 323 Zhonghui Building

About the speaker:

Jinhua Zhao is the David J. Nolan Dean and Professor of Applied Economics and Policy at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. He served on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board as well as the Air, Climate and Energy Committee of EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors. He was a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and served on the editorial boards of JEEM, Review of Development Economics, Annual Review of Resource Economics, and Frontiers of Economics in China. He is currently on the editorial committee of Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. He conducts research in the broad area of environmental and resource economics, with special interests in global climate change, environmental regulation, technology adoption, dynamic decision making under uncertainty, and China’s environment. His publications have appeared in leading academic journals including Science, Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, JEEM and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. His research projects have been funded by US National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US EPA and NASA.