# Professor Lawrence White is quoted in a story about new research on air pollution and worker productivity

1 Faculty News January 21, 2019 ![SciDev.Net logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/SciDev.Net%20logo%20feature.jpg?itok=_8wVw6X2)>

Excerpt from [SciDev.Net ](https://www.scidev.net/asia-pacific/pollution/news/aerial-pollution-cuts-worker-productivity-study.html)-- "[Lawrence White](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/lawrence-white), an economics professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, calls this work 'another sophisticated, well-researched article in a long line of research that stretches back over five decades, showing the adverse consequences of ambient air pollution —- in this case fine particulates.'"

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