UC San Diego

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between air pollution and human activity. The first chapter examines whether firms are better incentivized to clean up their atmospheric emissions via a regulatory scheme based on an absolute or relative standard. The second chapter examines intercollegiate track & field outcomes to identify an adaptation effect of training in higher ambient ozone levels. The third chapter looks at the efficacy of short term government interventions in Santiago, Chile, which sought to reduce the severity and health effects of spikes in urban air pollution through a series of government protocols enacted to address poor air quality