Michael Greenstone
· The Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School Director of the Becker Friedman Institute Director of the Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC)University of Chicago · Global Health
Active 1975–2026
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Research topics
- Political Science
- Economics
- Natural resource economics
- Environmental science
- Sociology
- Ecology
- Econometrics
- Chemistry
- Finance
- Law
Selected publications
Does Social Distancing Matter?
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 394 citations
1st authorCorrespondingEstimating a social cost of carbon for global energy consumption
Nature · 2021 · 356 citations
China’s War on Pollution: Evidence from the First 5 Years
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · 2021 · 227 citations
1st authorCorrespondingThe decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China’s approach to environmental regulation and pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the 5 years following the Chinese government’s announcement of its “war on pollution” in 2014. We review the emerging literature that has taken advantage of recent improvements in data availability and accuracy to understand the social, economic, and health impacts of environmental polluti…
Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation
Nature · 2025-06-18 · 201 citations
articleOpen accessAmerican Economic Review · 2024 · 166 citations
We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of assigning firms to public or private citizen appeals when they violate pollution standards. There are three main findings. First, public appeals to the regulator through social media substantially reduce violations and pollution emissions, while private appeals cause more modest environmental improvements. Second, public appeals appear to tilt regulators’ focus away from facilitating economic growt…
Recent grants
NIH · $403k · 2010
Frequent coauthors
- 117 shared
Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 114 shared
Catherine Wolfram
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 111 shared
Meredith Fowlie
- 101 shared
Olivier Deschênes
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 69 shared
Nicholas Ryan
- 66 shared
Rohini Pande
Yale University
- 63 shared
Solomon Hsiang
- 59 shared
Janet Currie
Princeton University
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