Measuring the Long-Term Health Effects of Air Pollution, with

Measuring the Long-Term Health Effects of Air Pollution, with Tatyana Deryugina

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In this week’s episode, host Kristin Hayes talks with Tatyana Deryugina, an associate professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about her recent work to better understand the long-term health effects of exposure to air pollution. Deryugina discusses methods for measuring the impact of pollution on life expectancy, the chronic effects of air pollution, the availability of air-pollution data, and trends in air pollution in the United States. References and recommendations: “The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction” by Tatyana Deryugina, Garth Heutel, Nolan H. Miller, David Molitor, and Julian Reif; https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20180279 “Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir” by Marie Yovanovitch; https://www.harpercollins.com/products/lessons-from-the-edge-marie-yovanovitch

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