Nahid Tavassoli

EPA’s air-quality reforms did more than cut pollution—they improved lives from birth 🌎👶 ⬇️ Low birth weight 5.5% ⬇️ Very preterm births 13% Biggest gains were seen among Black & single mothers. tinyurl.com/2pachbzr

🎓Excited to share two big milestones: ✅ Defended my PhD in Economics at @UWM ✅ Accepted a tenure-track Assistant Prof. position at @APSUBusiness starting this fall! Grateful for all the support. Can’t wait to keep teaching & researching! #PhDDefense #EconTwitter

Thrilled that my JMP found a home in the @JIntlEcon!🎉 This paper examines how NAFTA-induced trade shocks affected U.S. infant 👶 health. Full paper:🔗authors.elsevier.com/a/1kktQ5330moLx #Economics #TradePolicy #HealthEconomics #NAFTA #BirthOutcomes #FetalOrigin

African Americans who changed their racial identity and "passed" as white in the late 19th and early 20th centuries lived approximately 9.4 months longer, on average, than their non-passing siblings, from @HNoghani and @jasonmfletcher nber.org/papers/w33394

The long-term effects of the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's hookworm eradication campaign, initiated in the American South in the 1910s, from @HNoghani and @jasonmfletcher nber.org/papers/w33249

Hello! I’m looking to form a session for the upcoming #ASHEcon2025conference on in-utero exposure and infant health. 📩Feel free to DM or reply if you’re interested in joining! #ASHEcon #econtwitter #HealthEconomics

Hello everyone! I am speaking at SEA 94th Annual Meeting. Please check out my talk if you're attending the event! #SEA94thAnnualMeeting - via #Whova event app

This looks fascinating. New JMP by @NahidTav shows that cap-and-trade markets designed to regulate ozone pollution improve infants’ health outcomes a lot! dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/wt5drhh…

My job market paper “New Beginnings: The NOx Budget Trading Program and Infants' Health”, now available on SSRN! Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…