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Joshua Lewis

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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de sciences économiques

joshua.lewis@umontreal.ca

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Affiliations et responsabilités

Affiliations de recherche

Enseignement et encadrement

Encadrement

Thèses et mémoires dirigés (dépôt institutionnel Papyrus)

2024

Three essays on family, culture and development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Diplômé(e) : Gbeholo, Caleb
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
2024

Essays on Water Infrastructure Investments and Infectious Diseases Management

Diplômé(e) : Kouassi, Régis
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
2022

Essays on the regulation of sin goods

Diplômé(e) : Perrault, Tiffanie
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
2020

Culture, gender and development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Diplômé(e) : Talba Papite, Lucienne
Cycle : Doctorat
Diplôme obtenu : Ph. D.
2016

Principaux obstacles à la décision d’investissement des firmes en Afrique

Diplômé(e) : Youmbi, Michel Etienne
Cycle : Maîtrise
Diplôme obtenu : M. Sc.

Projets

Projets de recherche

2025 - 2030

The Historical Origins of Current Racial Disparities in Air Pollution Exposure in the United States

Chercheur principal : Joshua Lewis
Sources de financement : CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Programmes de subvention : PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir
2020

Covid-19: an economic analysis

Chercheur principal : Joshua Lewis , Raphaël Godefroy , Fabian Lange

Rayonnement

Publications et communications

Publications

"Carbon Rollercoaster: A Historical Analysis of Decarbonization in the United States" (joint with Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, and Edson Severnini). Forthcoming at Journal of Economic Perspectives. NBER Working Paper No. 33983.

"The Social Lifecycle Impacts of Power Plant Siting in the Historical United States" (joint with Karen Clay, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Akshaya Jha, Noah Miller, and Edson Severnini). Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy (Volume 7). 

"National Institutions and Self-Insurance" (joint with Raphael Godefroy). Economic Development & Cultural Change, Vol. 73, No. 2 (2025): 579-606.     

"The Historical Impact of Coal in Cities" (joint with Karen Clay and Edson Severnini). Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 107 (July 2024): 103951. 

"The Long-Run Impacts of Adolescent Drinking: Evidence from Zero Tolerance Laws" (joint with Tatiana Abhoud and Andriana Bellou). Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 231 (March 2024): 105066.

"The Value of Health Insurance during a Crisis: Effects of Medicaid Implementation on Pandemic Influenza Mortality" (joint with Karen Clay, Edson Severnini, and Xiao Wang) Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 106, No. 5 (2024): 1393-1402.

"Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution" (joint with Karen Clay and Edson Severnini) Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 106, No. 3 (2024): 698-711.

"Estimating Population Infection Rates from Non-Random Testing Data: Evidence from COVID-19 Pandemic" (joint with David Benatia and Raphael Godefroy). PLOS One, Vol. 19, No. 9 (2024): e0311001.

"What Explains the Socioeconomic Status - Health Gradient? Evidence from Workplace COVID-19 Infections" (joint with Raphael Godefroy) Social Science & Medicine - Population Health, Vol. 18 (June 2022): 101124.

“Estimates of COVID-19 Cases Across Four Canadian Provinces.” (with David Benatia and Raphael Godefroy). Canadian Public Policy, Vol. 46, No. S3 (October 2020): S203-S216.

“Short- and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the U.S. Power Grid.” (with Edson Severnini). Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 143, (March 2020): 102412.

“What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence    from 440 U.S. Cities.” (with Karen Clay and Edson Severnini). Economics and Human Biology, Vol. 35 (2019): 42-50.

“Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic.” (with Karen Clay and Edson Severnini). Journal of Economic History, Vol. 78, No. 4 (December 2018): 1179-1209.

“Does Male Education Affect Fertility? Evidence from Mali.” (with Raphael Godefroy). Economic Letters, Vol. 172 (November 2018): 118-122.

“Infant Health, Women’s Fertility, and Rural Electrification in the United States, 1930-1960.” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 78, No. 1 (March 2018): 118-154.

“The Impact of Technological Change within the Home.” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 75, No. 2 (June 2015): 539-543. Dissertation Summary.

Disciplines

  • Économie
  • Démographie
  • Histoire

Champ d’expertise

  • Histoire économique
  • Économétrie appliquée
  • Économie du travail
  • COVID-19
  • COVID19

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