I am interested in the nexus of environmental and health economics.

 

The built environment is a critical reflection of the distribution of social surplus: poor people get worse houses and minority communities tend to be in places that are literally toxic.

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Childhood Lead Poisoning and the Built Environment in Kansas City, Missouri, 2000-2013.

https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/84396

This study examines relationships between pediatric lead poisoning and the built environment. Focusing on Kansas City, Missouri between the years 2000 and 2013 this dissertation informs policy options and identifies under-explored lines of inquiry related to pediatric lead poisoning. The dissertation extends the social surplus approach to economic modeling into a discussion of the production of pediatric lead poisoning. This dissertation grounds disparities in pediatric lead poisoning in an interdisciplinary context integrating biology, health effects, exposure pathways, social history, and economic theory into a research agenda.