Clear Sky, Clear Minds: Empirical Evidence from NSFC Applications
July 1, 2024·
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Chenzhe Zhang
Abstract
This project studies how air pollution shapes academic research activity. Using pollution exposure from upwind cities as an instrumental variable and linking daily weather and air quality data to annual NSFC proposal records from 2013 to 2019, I find that air pollution exposure in the two to three months before application reduces the number of grant proposals submitted.
Authors
PhD Student in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
I am a PhD student in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics. My research interests lie in applied microeconomics, environmental and energy economics, policy evaluation, causal inference, and machine learning. I am particularly interested in original data construction and empirical work at the intersection of environmental risk, human behavior, and economic outcomes.