171. Measuring Pollution on Parallel Earths

Michael Greenstone knows it’s corny, but he wants to make the world a better place — by tracking the impact of air quality, developing pollution markets in India, and … starting a podcast, which Steve says proves he’s over the hill.

• SOURCES:• Michael Greenstone (michaelgreenstone.com), professor of economics at the University of Chicago.

• RESOURCES:• "New evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China's Huai River Policy (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1616784114)," by Avraham Ebenstein, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, and Maigeng Zhou (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017).
• "Evidence on the impact of sustained exposure to air pollution on life expectancy from China's Huai River policy (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1300018110)," by Yuyu Chen, Avraham Ebenstein, Michael Greenstone, and Hongbin Li (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013).
• Shocked (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shocked/id183154…), podcast.
• Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) (aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/indexMap).
• Emissions Market Accelerator (emissionsmarkets.org).
• Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) (tfff.earth).

• EXTRAS:• "This Is Your Brain on Pollution (freakonomics.com/podcast/this-is-your-brain-on…)," by Freakonomics Radio (2021).
• "The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest (freakonomics.com/podcast/the-simple-economics-…)", by People I (Mostly) Admire (2020).

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