Working papers: 

• Airlines, Pollution, and Health  (with Charles A Taylor)

SSRN March 2024 version

• Driving Fertility: the Global Impact of Leaded Gasoline Bans on Birth Rates  (with Charles A Taylor)

• Trade, Trees, and Lives (with Lei Li and Eric Zou)

NBER WP #33143, SSRN November 2024 version

• Marine Microplastics and Infant Health  (with Evie Shan Zhang and Eric Zou)

NBER WP #33094, SSRN October 2024 version

• Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence

Columbia CEEP WP #24, CESifo WP #10296

Reject and Resubmit at Economic Journal

• Weather Adaptation by U.S. Railways and its Externality  (with Andrew J Wilson)

SSRN May 2024 version

R&R at Journal of Public Economics

• When Growth Stumbles, Pollute? Trade War, Environmental Enforcement, and Pollution 

Columbia CEEP WP #26, May 2022 version, August 2020 version

R&R at Economic Journal

Publications:

• Xinming Du, Muye Ru, Douglas Almond (forthcoming). Rapid Increases in Methane Concentrations Following August 2020 Suspension of the US Methane Rule. NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy: Cambridge University Press.

• Douglas Almond, Xinming Du, Anna Papp (2022).  Favourability towards Natural Gas Relates to Funding Source of University Energy Centres. Nature Climate Change, 12: 1122–1128.

• Douglas Almond, Xinming Du (2020).  Later Bedtimes Predict President Trump’s Performance. Economics Letters, 197: 109590.

• Douglas Almond, Xinming Du, Valerie Karplus, Shuang Zhang (2021).  Ambiguous Air Pollution Effects of China's COVID-19 Lock-Down. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111: 376-80. 

• Xinming Du (2023). Competing with Clean Air: Pollution Disclosure and College Desirability. Ecological Economics, 204: 107631.

• Douglas Almond, Xinming Du, Alana Vogel (2022).  Reduced Trolling on Russian Holidays and Daily US Presidential Election Odds. PLOS ONE, 17(3): e0264507.

• Junjie Zhang, Zhenxuan Wang, Xinming Du (2017). Lessons Learned from China's Regional Carbon Market Pilots. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 0(2). 

Teaching:

Schedule an appointment: https://calendly.com/xd2197/office-hours

• EC2383 Environmental Economics: Syllabus

• EC4305 Applied Econometrics: Syllabus

Selected Media Coverage:

• Podcast on social media and violence, with Jennifer Doleac, Probable Causation (December 2023)

• Biden has a profound choice to make on LNG expansion, by Bill McKibben, The New Yorker (October 2023)

• Fossil fuel companies donated $700m to US universities over 10 years, by Amy Westervelt, The Guardian (March 2023)

• How oil & gas funding distorts energy research, Yahoo News (November 2022)

• Trump’s sleepless nights, trustworthy faces, and importing hate, Boston Globe (October 2020)

``Economics is the study of the optimal allocation of scarce resources. Climate stability and survivable environment are increasingly scarce resources.''