Appointments:
- Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
- Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
Email: ericzou@umich.edu
Phone: (217) 418-7977
Address: R4374, Ross School of Business, 701 Tappan Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Curriculum Vitae (April 2024)
Google Scholar
Environment and Digital Consumer
RESEARCH PAPERS
Health Effects of Emerging Pollution Sources
[1] "Emergency Visits for Thunderstorm-Related Respiratory Illnesses Among Older Adults"
Eric Zou, Christopher Worsham, Nolan Miller, David Molitor, Julian Reif, Anupam B. Jena
JAMA Internal Medicine, August 2020
Paper, Slides, Published version, Long version, [Media coverage]
[2] "Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke"
Mark Borgschulte, David Molitor, Eric Zou
Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics
Paper, Appendix, Slides, IZA, SIEPR, CNBC interview, County-day wildfire smoke, April 2022
[3] "Wind Turbine Syndrome: The Impact of Wind Farms on Suicide"
Eric Zou
Revise and resubmit, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Paper, September 2020
[4] "Blowing Smoke: Health Impacts of Wildfire Plume Dynamics"
With Nolan Miller and David Molitor
Paper, October 2017
Pollution Monitoring and Regulations
[5] "Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality"
Eric Zou
American Economic Review, July 2021
Paper, Appendix, Slides, Published version, Resources Radio podcast
[6] "China’s War on Pollution: Evidence from the First Five Years"
Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Shanjun Li, Eric Zou
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, August 2021
Paper, Appendix, Slides, How to get China air pollution data, Published version, 中文介绍 (by Xi Lan)
[7] "(Re)scheduling Pollution Exposure: The Case of Surgery Schedules"
Jialin Huang, Jianwei Xing, Eric Zou
Journal of Public Economics, March 2023
Paper, Slides, Published version, Pollution IV creation kit
[8] "What’s Missing in Environmental Self-Monitoring: Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors"
Yingfei Mu, Edward Rubin, Eric Zou
Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics
Paper, Map, Slides, Energy Institute Blog (by Max Auffhammer), 中文介绍 (by Zhiren Hu), November 2023
[9] "From Fog to Smog: The Value of Pollution Information"
With Panle Jia Barwick, Shanjun Li, and Liguo Lin
Accepted, American Economic Review
Paper, The NBER Digest, December 2022
Ecosystems and the Economy
[10] "Conservation Co-Benefits from Air Pollution Regulation: Evidence from Birds"
Yuanning Liang, Ivan Rudik, Eric Zou, Alison Johnston, Amanda Rodewald, Cathy Kling
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2020
Paper, Slides, Published version, Kids version, 中文介绍 (香樟), [Media coverage]
[11] "The Environmental Effects of Economic Production: Evidence from Ecological Observations"
With Yuanning Liang and Ivan Rudik
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Public Economics
Paper, Slides, NBER Working Paper #29357, 中文介绍 (香樟), June 2023
[12] "Urban Forests: Environmental Health Values and Risks"
With Jianwei Xing, Zhiren Hu, Fan Xia, and Jintao Xu
Paper, NBER Working Paper #31554, Random Acts of Medicine Substack, March 2024
[13] "Trade, Trees, and Health"
With Xinming Du and Lei Li
[14] "China’s Ecological Restoration: Evidence from the Last 20 Years"
With Guojun He, Yuanning Liang, Yuhang Pan, Jianwei Xing, and Zheng Zhong
[15] "Microclimate and Urban Businesses"
With Kangkai Wang, Jianwei Xing, Hua Zhang, and Shuang Zhang
Business and Sustainability
[16] "‘Quick Response’ Economic Stimulus: The Effect of Small-Value Digital Coupons on Spending"
Jianwei Xing, Eric Zou, Zhentao Yin, Yong Wang, Zhenhua Li
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Paper, Slides, Published version, 中文介绍 (by Zhiren Hu), October 2023
[17] "Microgiving with Digital Platforms"
With Xiheng Jiang, Jianwei Xing, and Jintao Xu
Revise and resubmit, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
Paper, Slides, NBER Working Paper #30102, VoxChina/CEPR, February 2023
[18] "Beyond New: Consumer Trading of Used Items"
With Jianwei Xing
TEACHING
Intermediate Microeconomic Theory (EC 311, University of Oregon) - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Applied Econometrics (Masters EC 525, University of Oregon) - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Environmental Economics (Ph.D. EC 607, University of Oregon) - 2022, 2023