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Claudia Persico

@claudiapersico.bsky.social
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Associate Prof at American University SPA (formerly UW-Madison), NBER & IZA studying environmental, health & ed policy. PhD from Northwestern U. Thoughts are my own.

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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · 11/08/2026
A shocking 44% of all US K12 schools are located within a 1 mile distance from a known environmental hazard (Superfund, brownfield, or Toxic Release Inventory facility). Work by @claudiapersico.bsky.social & many others documents clear negative effects on health and learning at this distance. /2
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Had a great time presenting today at the University of Tokyo! Japan is gorgeous.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The proposed rule would enable political appointees to take control of grants. Peer review is no longer binding. Grants can be canceled for any reason. International collaborations are prohibited. Ideology would drive awards. Please comment to save science. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘The purpose of the rule is fascism’: scientists fight back against planned Trump research cuts
Stand Up for Science founder says proposal to control how grants are spent would ‘dismantle US science ecosystem’
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The Wall Street Journal covered my new paper on how we estimate the effects of AI (incorrectly) with @michelleyin.bsky.social and @hoavu.bsky.social! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-m...
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AI Can’t Agree on Which Jobs AI Might Destroy
Economists asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude which jobs were most exposed to AI. Many times, the models gave different answers.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
We asked four LLMs how exposed your job is to AI. They could NOT agree. Management: 15% vs 90% Legal: 10% vs 75% Healthcare: 5% vs 60% Same rubric. Same jobs. Same data. Different AI, completely different answer. New @nber.org working paper with @michelle-yin.bsky.social & @hoavu.bsky.social ! 1/
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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Welcome our next seminar speaker, Claudia Persico (@claudiapersico.bsky.social). She'll be presenting, "The Effects of Daily Air Pollution on Students, Teachers and School Violence."
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Is anyone looking for a last minute extra paper on pollution, education, or health (or crime) for a panel at #ASSA2027?
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My new paper on Air Quality and Suicide is online at the Journal of Health Economics! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Air quality and suicide
We study the relationship between air pollution and suicide using detailed daily cause of death data from all death certificates in the U.S. over eigh…
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Hey, my new JPAM article is online! It's called, "Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health, and Economic Outcomes" and you can read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health, and Economic Outcomes
Although pollution is widespread, there is little evidence on how it affects children's long-run outcomes. Using detailed, geocoded longitudinal data, we compare siblings who were gestating before ve....
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I'm excited that my paper on Air Quality and Suicide has found a great home at the Journal of Health Economics! Pollution affects mood. We show that on days of high air pollution, there are more suicide attempts and deaths by suicide in the US. www.nber.org/papers/w30626
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Air Quality and Suicide
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My brow is furrowed as I type and graph this.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
No-one is happy about the jobs report.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
This is not good.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Seems troubling. More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I had a great time participating in The Future We're Building with the Children's Environmental Health Network! DC is such a great place to meet policymakers and practitioners, as well as other academics, who want our kids to breathe clean air.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This is going to cause so much sickness, death and misery. And it didn't need to happen. It's a choice to poison the public. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...
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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I’m excited to join @CEHN & @CEP_AmericanU on 2/19 for The Future We’re Building in Washington, DC! This symposium blends science, storytelling, & strategy, highlighting examples of communities getting it right & addressing emerging challenges. givebutter.com/FutureWereBu... Registration is free 👇
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The Future We're Building Symposium
By Children's Environmental Health Network
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
My paper, "“Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes" was accepted at the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM)! I am so happy that the paper found a good home and will be published soon! NBER WP version: www.nber.org/papers/w30559
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Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/01/2026
www.facebook.com/746067036/po... @alt-text.bots.bacalhau.org
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New, from me: Defenders of police abuses will sometimes talk about “bad apples” spoiling the barrel. This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
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Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 23/01/2026
It is legal to claim asylum in the United States. What is illegal is to forcibly remove a person before their asylum claim is adjudicated. I wish those entrusted with vast power to devastate the lives of small children had more interest in governing, under law, and less in social media quips.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Got a note today from a student from a few years ago, who is now a state representative, saying how much she learned in my education policy course and how she now applies it in the real world. Friends, there is no greater happiness for me than this. My students @au-spa.bsky.social are awesome.
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Scholars Strategy Network @scholars.org · 13/01/2026
Trump plans to drop calculating the monetary value of public health benefits from air pollution rules and focus instead on industry costs. @claudiapersico.bsky.social (@au-spa.bsky.social) says this will cause deaths of vulnerable Americans. Read from @brettwilkins.bsky.social, @commondreams.org:
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EPA to Stop Counting Public Health Benefits When Setting Air Pollution Standards | Common Dreams
"This policy will cause more deaths of vulnerable Americans, like infants and the elderly," said one critic. "Also, it appears to be a violation of the Clean Air Act."
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C. Kirabo Jackson @kirabojackson.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is crazy! This is the opposite of trying to find the social optimum.
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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 12/01/2026
Human health benefits are by far the largest benefit from most environmental regulations. By not monetizing these benefits moving forward, the Trump EPA is essentially saying there are no human health benefits to reducing air/toxic/climate pollution, improving drinking water quality, etc. 1/
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/01/2026
The administration is literally formally and practically saying: - all it cares about is business owners' profits and - the amount it cares about Americans' lives is ZERO.
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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🚨 Call for Papers: 🚨 The 5th NBER Regulation Conference will be in Cambridge on April 24, 2026. This is a great opportunity to talk to people in different fields about shared regulatory issues! Submissions are due Feb 10. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This policy will cause more deaths of vulnerable Americans, like infants and the elderly. Also, it appears to be a violation of the Clean Air Act. This is incredibly foolish. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
NOW: Protest in DC tonight at 14 and U streets, shutting down traffic in both directions.
STOP
ICE TERROR NOW
PARTY FOR SOCIALISM & LIBERATION
JUSTICE FOR RENEE GOOD
PARTY FOR SOCIALISH & LIBERATION
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 20/11/2025
Amazing study showing that deactivating social media improved mental health. [It has so many coauthors that the sample size was sufficient to run the RCT on themselves.]
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans. Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power. Take that shit to court!
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 06/11/2025
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever
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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
From the team that brought you the "Too Big To Fail" financial institutions, it's the "Too Brilliant To Be Held Accountable" men 🤢
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This is a good companion piece to the NYT piece today on the attack on the DOJ, and a sign of what the lawyers who did not resign or get fired are willing to do.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is a huge threat to research and likely to greatly harm our Chinese colleagues and friends.
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Elizabeth (Beth) Dhuey @bdhuey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I know that the job market is rough this year for Econ PhDs. @utoronto.ca has expanded its postdoc funding. If you are on the market and work on school finance or early childhood education and are interested in a PostDoc, let me know! #econsky #educsky postdoc.sgs.utoronto.ca/current-post...
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Postdoctoral Talent Initiative – School of Graduate Studies Postdoctoral Fellows
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Had an awesome time presenting research and doing research at Northwestern University yesterday! #SESPLOVE
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
What will AI actually mean for schools over the next several years? Here are my theories: –The student cheating problem won't go away. –AI will increasingly become a ubiquitous teaching assistant. –AI will *not* be a super-tutor. cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org/p/3-ways-ai-...
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3 ways AI will (and won’t) change schools
The cheating problem isn’t going away. More teachers will use AI as an assistant. But AI won't be a supertutor.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is why we need to donate to food banks now.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It’s not just that they don’t have to turn off SNAP benefits — they’re not legally allowed to. They legally must use the contingency fund. The admin is pretending they can’t use it even though their own guidance from a month ago (that they’ve since deleted) contradicts that.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Millions of poor families are about to lose access to SNAP (food assistance) because of the shutdown. 39% of all SNAP recipients are children. Kids are about to go hungry and food banks are about to be overrun, so I am urging you to donate to your local food bank like we just did.
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Food Bank for the Washington, DC, Region | Capital Area Food Bank
The Capital Area Food serves the entire Washington, DC, metropolitan region, providing meals to thousands of people a day while also addressing the root causes of hunger.
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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I am not a lawyer. David Super is *the* lawyer. If he says the Trump Administration is illegally withholding SNAP benefits, they are. So...they are. "A more clearly unlawful impoundment is difficult to imagine."
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
If the NIH and HHS were under any other prior President (Dem or GOP), we’d see a rapid shift of funding to leverage this. But the politicization (and gutting) of these agencies means it won’t happen—and so many people will die unnecessarily as a result.
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I love diving at coral reefs. I've seen the bleaching first hand wherever I go. It's really sad. These are some of nature's most beautiful creations and ecologically necessary to protect coastlines. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
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Claudia Persico @claudiapersico.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
My work on how pollution can cause poverty was covered by the @washingtonpost.com . Check it out ⬇️⬇️ www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Column | Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest
The Department of Data went looking for geographic patterns in poverty, and stumbled upon a surprising culprit.
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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New paper out in @pnas.org! We study the effect of air pollution on pets, finding increased vet admissions when air quality is worse. Tackling air pollution doesn't just matter for human health - it's important for animals too, including people's much loved cats and dogs www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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American University School of Public Affairs @au-spa.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Affected by the Government Shutdown*? Join SPA for a day of free classes covering career development strategies, current events, AI, & networking opportunities. 🗓️ Friday, 10/10 🕑 9:30 AM - 3 PM 📍Kerwin Hall 👉 Reserve your spot: american-spa.swoogo.com/classeswithoutquizzes
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