Matthew A. Cole

Institution: University of Birmingham

Primary Field: Environment (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/economics-matt-cole

First Publication: 1998

Most Recent: 2024

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period	A (2x)	B (1x)	C (½x)	Total	Percentile
Last 5 Years	2.35	0.93	0.34	3.62	73%
Last 10 Years	3.36	2.78	0.84	6.98	80%
All Time	8.41	18.58	5.97	32.96	96%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 40

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 34.75

Publications (40)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2024	Foetal Exposure to Air Pollution and Students' Cognitive Performance: Evidence from Agricultural Fires in Brazil	Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics	B	3
2023	Assessing the Impacts of Birmingham’s Clean Air Zone on Air Quality: Estimates from a Machine Learning and Synthetic Control Approach	Environmental & Resource Economics	B	8
2021	Importing, outsourcing and pollution offshoring	Energy Economics	A	4
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	A	3
2021	Biodiversity and Economic Land Use	Land Economics	C	3
2020	The Impact of the Wuhan Covid-19 Lockdown on Air Pollution and Health: A Machine Learning and Augmented Synthetic Control Approach	Environmental & Resource Economics	B	3
2020	Air Pollution Exposure and Covid-19 in Dutch Municipalities	Environmental & Resource Economics	B	3
2019	The clean-up of Chinese manufacturing: Examining the role played by changing techniques of production	Economics Letters	C	2
2019	Natural disasters and spatial heterogeneity in damages: the birth, life and death of manufacturing plants	Journal of Economic Geography	B	4
2018	Power outages and firm performance in Sub-Saharan Africa	Journal of Development Economics	A	4
2014	Climate Change, Hydro-Dependency, and the African Dam Boom	World Development	B	3
2013	Local exposure to toxic releases: Examining the role of ethnic fractionalization and polarisation	Ecological Economics	B	3
2013	The carbon dioxide emissions of firms: A spatial analysis	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	A	4
2011	Growth, Foreign Direct Investment, and the Environment: Evidence from Chinese Cities	Journal of Regional Science	C	3
2011	The Stochastic Convergence of CO 2 Emissions: A Long Memory Approach	Environmental & Resource Economics	B	3
2010	Trade, environmental regulations and industrial mobility: An industry-level study of Japan	Ecological Economics	B	3
2010	Firm Heterogeneity, Origin of Ownership and Export Participation	The World Economy	C	3
2009	Institutionalized pollution havens	Ecological Economics	B	2
2009	Dirty money: Is there a wage premium for working in a pollution intensive industry?	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	B	3
2009	In Search of Environmental Spillovers	The World Economy	C	4
2009	Corruption, Governance and FDI Location in China: A Province-Level Analysis	Journal of Development Studies	C	3
2008	The environmental performance of firms: The role of foreign ownership, training, and experience	Ecological Economics	B	3
2008	Stochastic Divergence or Convergence of Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Re-examining the Evidence	Environmental & Resource Economics	B	3
2007	Corruption, income and the environment: An empirical analysis	Ecological Economics	B	1
2007	Do Environmental Regulations Cost Jobs? An Industry-Level Analysis of the UK	B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy	C	2
2006	Endogenous Pollution Havens: Does FDI Influence Environmental Regulations?*	Scandanavian Journal of Economics	B	3
2006	Globalization, firm-level characteristics and environmental management: A study of Japan	Ecological Economics	B	3
2006	Does trade liberalization increase national energy use?	Economics Letters	C	1
2006	The impact of poor health on total factor productivity	Journal of Development Studies	C	2
2005	Why the grass is not always greener: the competing effects of environmental regulations and factor intensities on US specialization	Ecological Economics	B	3
2005	Industrial characteristics, environmental regulations and air pollution: an analysis of the UK manufacturing sector	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	A	3
2005	FDI and the Capital Intensity of “Dirty” Sectors: A Missing Piece of the Pollution Haven Puzzle	Review of Development Economics	C	2
2004	On visible choice sets and scope sensitivity	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	A	6
2004	Trade, the pollution haven hypothesis and the environmental Kuznets curve: examining the linkages	Ecological Economics	B	1
2004	US environmental load displacement: examining consumption, regulations and the role of NAFTA	Ecological Economics	B	1
2003	Determining the trade-environment composition effect: the role of capital, labor and environmental regulations	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management	A	2
2003	Do Environmental Regulations Influence Trade Patterns? Testing Old and New Trade Theories	The World Economy	C	2
2001	The Uruguay Round and air pollution: estimating the composition, scale and technique effects of trade liberalization	Journal of International Trade & Economic Development	C	2
2000	Air Pollution and ‘Dirty’ Industries: How and Why Does the Composition of Manufacturing Output Change with Economic Development?	Environmental & Resource Economics	B	1
1998	Trade Liberalisation and the Environment: The Case of the Uruguay Round	The World Economy	C	3