Jennifer Orgill-Meyer
@jenomeyer
Environmental economist interested in global environmental health. Associate Professor at @FandMcollege researching environment, health, and development.
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https://www.fandm.edu/jennifer-meyer 14-07-2014 03:46:29
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"Recent research...shows that on average 40% of women are not using the latrines provided." Check out this honest Oxfam International video with solid suggestions for improving humanitarian sanitation: youtube.com/watch?v=lElWrs…
Emerging from pandemic hibernation to do some shameless self-promotion. Check out my new article with Subhrendu K. Pattanayak in World Development ! Access to improved sanitation has large impacts on cognitive development, particularly for girls! Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.worl…
#research from Subhrendu K. Pattanayak and Jennifer Orgill-Meyer in World Development links #sanitation with #cognition in girls. Read the paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
SETI Researchers Ipsita Das and M. Jeuland recently finalized a World Health Organization (WHO) modeling tool for quantifying the costs and benefits of interventions related to reductions in household air pollution (#HAP), called the BAR-HAP tool. Check it out here: who.int/airpollution/h…
In numbers what we all know is true. From the article: "Now is the time to act,” ... “Rather than rebuilding what we once knew, let us be the architects of a new world.” Couldn't agree more. In Science Magazine #science tinyurl.com/ll74u8du
Lancaster County does not have a Public Health Department--not good at any time but particularly not good during a pandemic. I teamed up with some other Franklin & Marshall researchers to measure demand for a Public Health Department in Lancaster: lancasteronline.com/news/health/fr…
Check out this cool research on the health benefits of power plant closures by Emily Pakhtigian
To scale or not to scale an NGO pilot intervention? "Into this debate comes a fascinating new paper," writes Markus Goldstein, one that was co-authored by our own Faraz Usmani.
A recording of our Pern webinar on climate and population is now available: iussp.org/en/ipc2021-cou… At 46:30, I summarize new global-scale evidence on this topic, incl. reviews by Roman Hoffmann, Barbora Šedová, and Jennifer Orgill-Meyer and my own work with Maia Call and @brian_thiede.
My paper with @KomisarowSarah on the effects of coal-fired power plant closures on school absences has been accepted by Journal of Environmental Economics and Management! A short thread 1/6 It is free to read and download for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/c/1eWFbLdSU-HlU
Per Robert McLeman, new IPCC report has good coverage of climate & migration and you should check it out. First paragraph below takes direct aim at common Malthusian misunderstandings and cites @WiseClimate, @Val_Mueller_ASU, Maia Call, Roman Hoffmann, Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, Jennifer Orgill-Meyer & others.
My paper with Dr. Katie Dickinson, Jennifer Orgill-Meyer, and Subhrendu K. Pattanayak on peer effects and sanitation has been accepted at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization! Access here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1fFNPc24a-e7F A brief thread 1/6 Penn State School of Public Policy @FandMcollege ColoradoSPH Sanford School of Public Policy
Just accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)! "NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions" Villages' prior relationships w/ development NGO increase effectiveness of an RCT by over 30% ➡️ implications for generalizability of experimental research w/ local partners doi.org/10.1162/rest_a…
