More great work by one of my heroes, Princeton's Janet Currie. In this latest piece she and her coauthors were able to deduce the effect of a congestion pricing scheme on asthma among local children. It turns out that if you make people pay the costs of what they are doing (i.e. contributing to traffic and making pollution) then they will do it less, and things will move in the right direction. Who knew?
A recent followup (May '19) asks what such a policy might mean for Baltimore. This on the heels of a policy getting the green light in NYC. Food for thought!
