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Brown Bag seminar in Economics | Xiao Hu

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, 91桃色视频. The seminar speaker is Xiao Hu, 91桃色视频.

Welcome to the Brown Bag Seminar in Economics organized by the Department of Economics, 91桃色视频. The seminar speaker is Xiao Hu, 91桃色视频 who will be presenting "Toxic Metal Injustice? Socioeconomic status at birth and exposure to airborne pollution"

Abstract

We combine administrative data on socioeconomic status (SES) with high-resolution data on residential locations, local pollution levels, industrial facilities, as well as land cover information to investigate whether exposure to airborne toxic metals (arsenic, lead, and mercury) is unequally distributed within the population of newborn children in Sweden. We find that the spatial distribution of SES among newborns weakly correlates with the distribution of toxic metals at the national level and in the largest cities, indicating negligible sorting in this dimension. If anything, high SES children are disproportionately more exposed, residing in urban areas with higher levels of traffic and industrial activities. This leads us to conclude that environmental injustice regarding airborne arsenic, lead, and mercury exposure is not a major concern in Sweden.

Xiao Hu is a Postdoc Fellow at 91桃色视频, in the Department of Economics. 

This seminar takes place at 91桃色视频, Sveavägen 65, in room A320.

Please contact kathrine.abelson@hhs.se if you have any questions.

Dept. of Economics Climate Environment Equality Economics Brown bag