Recent publications
Article
Tong, C, Dai, Y, Cole, M, Elliott, RJR, Bartington, SE, Liu, B & Shi, Z 2025, 'Further improvement in London’s air quality demands more than the Ultra Low Emission Zone policy', npj Clean Air, vol. 1, no. 1, 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44407-025-00030-9
Carneiro, J, Cole, M & Strobl, E 2024, 'Foetal Exposure to Air Pollution and Students' Cognitive Performance: Evidence from Agricultural Fires in Brazil', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12579
Liu, B, Bryson, JR, Sevinc, D, Cole, M, Elliott, R, Bartington, S, Bloss, W & Shi, Z 2023, 'Assessing the Impacts of Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone on Air Quality: Estimates from a Machine Learning and Synthetic Control Approach', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 86, no. 1-2, pp. 203-231. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00794-2, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00794-2
Song, C, Liu, B, Cheng, K, Cole, MA, Dai, Q, Elliott, RJR & Shi, Z 2023, 'Attribution of air quality benefits to clean winter heating polices in China: combining machine learning with causal inference', Environmental Science and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c06800
Lui-Farrer, G, Green, A, Ozgen, C & Cole, M 2023, 'Immigration and labor shortages: learning from Japan and the United Kingdom', Asian and Pacific Migration Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/01171968231188532
Cole, MA, Elliott, RJR & Strobl, E 2021, 'Biodiversity and economic land use', Land Economics, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 281-304. https://doi.org/10.3368/le.97.2.281
Cole, MA, Elliott, RJR, Okubo, T & Zhang, L 2021, 'Importing, outsourcing and pollution offshoring', Energy Economics, vol. 103, 105562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105562
Carneiro, J, Cole, M & Strobl, E 2021, 'The effects of air pollution on students’ cognitive performance: evidence from Brazilian university entrance tests', Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1051-1077. https://doi.org/10.1086/714671
Cole, M, Ozgen, C & Strobl, E 2020, 'Air pollution exposure and Covid‑19 in Dutch municipalities', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 581–610. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00491-4
Cole, MA, Elliott, RJR & Liu, B 2020, 'The Impact of the Wuhan Covid-19 lockdown on air pollution and health: a machine learning and augmented synthetic control approach', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 553-580. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00483-4
Cole, M, Elliott, R, Okubo, T & Strobl, E 2019, 'Natural disasters and spatial heterogeneity in damages: the birth, life and death of manufacturing plants', Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 373–408. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbx037
Cole, M, Maddison, D & Zhang, L 2019, 'Testing the emission reduction claims of CDM projects using the Benford’s Law', Climatic Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02593-5
Commissioned report
Bandyopadhyay, S, Karavias, Y, Menezes, L, Taylor, J, Apena Rogers, S, Kane, E, Burton, A, Evans, E, Abramovaite, J, Montgomery, P, Chandan, J, Martin, J, Banerjee, A, Cole, M & Chaudhuri, K 2024, Remedi Restorative Mentors: Pilot trial report. Youth Endowment Fund. <https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/YEF.-REMEDI-Pilot-January-2024.pdf>
Cole, M, Elliott, R & Zhang, L 2023, A review of FDI and the environment in Asia literature: Are there lessons for climate change mitigation strategies? 2023 edn, Asian Development Bank, Philippines.
Other report
Shi, Z, Liu, B, Cheng, K, Elliott, R, Cole, M & Bryson, J 2022, Quantifying the impact of clean air policy interventions for air quality management. University of Birmingham. https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004040, https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004040
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