We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for schools the same distance from major highways. We compare within-student achievement for students transitioning between schools near highways, where one school has had greater...

In this paper, we estimate the relationship between cyclical changes in aggregate labor market opportunities and child health outcomes. In addition to using state unemployment rates to proxy for labor market conditions, as is common in the existing literature, we construct predicted employment...

This paper comprises two intertwined reflective threads—my own engagements with and perceptions of different phases of Alan Gilbert's work, and a critical perspective on ‘slum(dog) fever’—the recent and often decontextualised fixation on slums, with which Alan has engaged. The first...