Soodeh Saberian

• ECON 2390 - Introduction to Environmental Economics
• ECON 4040 - Seminar in Applied Econometrics

I am an Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of the University of Manitoba and a Research Affiliate at Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). 

• PhD (Economics), 2018

Research summary

I am an applied micro-economist working in the areas of environmental economics, labor, and health. My main works investigate how air pollution and climate affect health and non-health outcomes.

• Alerts Work! Air Quality Warnings and Cycling (2017), Resource and Energy Economics, 49(1):165–185 with A. Heyes and N. Rivers.
• Air Quality and Error Quantity: Pollution and Performance in a High-skilled, Quality-focused Occupation (2018), 4: 827-863, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, with J. Archsmith and A. Heyes.
• Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases (2019), American Economic Journal: Applied, 11(2):238–256, with A. Heyes.
• Public Transportation and Air Pollution: Evidence from Transit Strikes (2020), Canadian Journal of Economics, 53(2):496–525, with N. Rivers and B. Schaufele.
• Air Pollution and Criminal Activity: Microgeographic Evidence from Chicago, (2021), American Economic Journal: Applied, 13(4), 70–100 with E. Herrnstadts, A. Heyes, E. Muehlegger.
• Hot Days, the ability to Work and climate resilience: Evidence from a representative sample of 42,152 Indian households, (2022), Journal of Development Economics, 155, 102786. with A. Heyes.
• Correction to “Temperature and Decisions: Evidence from 207,000 Court Cases” (by Heyes and Saberian AEJ: Applied Economics 11(2), 238-65, April 2019) and Reply to Spamann (2022), American Economic Journal: Applied, 14 (4), 529–533. with A. Heyes.