MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • Evidence on the impact of Sustained Exposure to Air Pollution on Life Expectancy from China's Huai River Policy 

      Chen, Yuyu; Ebenstein, Avraham; Greenstone, Michael; Li, Hongbin (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-10-18)
      This paper's findings suggest that an arbitrary Chinese policy that greatly increases total suspended particulates (TSP) air pollution is causing the 500 million residents of Northern China to lose more than 2.5 billion ...

    • Network Security and Contagion 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Malekian, Azarakhsh; Ozdaglar, Asu (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-06-28)
      We develop a theoretical model of security investments in a network of interconnected agents. Network connections introduce the possibility of cascading failures due to an exogenous or endogenous attack depending on the ...

    • Keynes and Marx, Duncan and Me 

      Piore, Michael (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013-06-28)
      This paper was originally prepared for the New School celebration of Duncan Foley’s career. It attempts to place his work in the context of the evolution of economics as a discipline and of the MIT Economics Department ...