Mildred Ash
Biographic Data
| ID | 134242 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mildred Ash |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mildred |
| FAMILY NAME | Ash |
| SIGNATURE | ASH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2691-8832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A systematic literature review on residential demand response with a focus on opportunities for low-income communities
Pervasive racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. petrochemical workforce
The burden of petrochemical pollution on communities of Color is well established, but the corresponding distribution of economic benefits is unclear. We evaluated employment equity in chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) and petroleum/coal products manufacturing (NAICS 324) among U.S. states and core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) relative to racial education gaps, using data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Census Bureau. As …
What a Difference a Datum Makes: Revisiting the Impacts of Cap-and-Trade on Emissions and Environmental Justice
A recent article by Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Kyle Meng suggests that the cap-and-trade program in California led to improvements in the degree of environmental inequity in the state, a result that was taken up with some enthusiasm by proponents of carbon pricing. We suggest that their approach is not designed to capture the variation at the heart of the equity debate and show that the results these authors offer may be problematic because of th…
Environmental inequality in industrial brownfields: Evidence from French municipalities
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1
Greenhouse Suppliers 100: A ranking of corporate producers of greenhouse gas precursors in the USA
This paper presents the first comprehensive database of corporate suppliers of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas supply stocks in the U.S. economy. The database is a publicly available resource that adds value to existing information sources in two ways. First, we combine several high-quality public data sources, including the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which reports on most products that woul…
Lisa Fe' Saunders 1956–2022 In Memoriam
Initially High Correlation between Air Pollution and Covid-19 Mortality Declined to Zero as the Pandemic Progressed: There Is No Evidence for a Causal Link between Air Pollution and Covid-19 Vulnerabi…
Wu et al. found a strong positive association between cumulative daily county-level COVID-19 mortality and long-term average PM 2.5 concentrations for data up until September 2020. We replicated the results of Wu et al. and extended the analysis up until May 2022. The association between PM 2.5 concentration and cumulative COVID-19 mortality fell sharply after September 2020. Using the data available from Wu et al.'s "updated_data" branch up unti…
Incarceration and mortality in the United States
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the role of America's overcrowded prisons as vectors of ill health, but robust analyses of the degree to which high rates of incarceration impact population-level health outcomes remain scarce. In this paper, we use county-level panel data from 2927 counties across 43 states between 1983 and 2014 and a novel instrumental variable technique to study the causal effect of penal expansion on age-standardi…
Measuring environmental inequality
Regional variation in environmental inequality: Industrial air toxics exposure in U.S. cities
What do Health Care Unions do: A Response to Manthous
In response to Manthous, we discuss the role of unions in health care. The ethical quandary that Manthous perceives in health care worker unions is overstated because patient and worker interests are frequently aligned. The search for a "selfless" union overlooks the importance of adequate compensation for providing excellent care. The collective actions employed by health care workers' unions need not include strikes or slowdowns and can be cons…
Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks? Industrial Air Toxics Exposure in Urban A merica
Objectives The study examines spatial variation in exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial facilities in urban areas of the U nited S tates in relation to the local distribution of the pollution burden. Methods We conducted between‐ and within‐city analysis of geographic microdata from the U . S . E nvironmental P rotection A gency's R isk‐ S creening E nvironmental I ndicators project and data from the 2000 U . S . C ensus. Results Avera…
Contemplating the Unusual and Unpredictable
248-258
Inequality, race, and mortality in U.S. cities: A political and econometric review of Deaton and Lubotsky (56:6, 1139–1153, 2003)
Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United States
This paper argues that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners' earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws: First, it has focused on the effects of women's shares of couples' total earnings on housework, not considering the simpler possibility of an association between women's absolute earnings and housework. Second, it tends to draw uniform inferences across the range of data, including regio…
Disparities in Asthma Hospitalization in Massachusetts
Objectives. We examined racial disparities in asthma morbidity in Massachusetts. Methods. We used Massachusetts case-mix data from 1994 to 2002 to screen and track individual asthma morbidity and hospitalizations, which resulted in a sample of 10145 patients who were first hospitalized for asthma between 1997 and 2000. We followed these patients for 2 years after their first hospitalization. Because asthma is widely considered a preventable cause…
Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model
Objective. We analyze the social and economic correlates of air pollution exposure in U.S. cities. Methods. We combine 1990 Census block group data for urbanized areas with 1998 data on toxicity‐adjusted exposure to air pollution. Using a unique data set created as a byproduct of the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model, we improve on previous studies of environmental inequality in three ways. First, where previous studies focus on…
The Effect of Registered Nurses' Unions on Heart-Attack Mortality
Although hospital work organization affects patient outcomes and in some states registered nurses (R.N.'s) are increasingly forming unions, the relationship between R.N. unions and patient outcomes has received little attention. This study examines the relationship between R.N. unionization and the mortality rate for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or heart attack, in acute-care hospitals in California. After controlling for patient and hospit…
Psychoanalysis and Female Sexuality
Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United States
This paper argues that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners' earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws: First, it has focused on the effects of women's shares of couples' total earnings on housework, not considering the simpler possibility of an association between women's absolute earnings and housework. Second, it tends to draw uniform inferences across the range of data, including regio…
Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model
Objective. We analyze the social and economic correlates of air pollution exposure in U.S. cities. Methods. We combine 1990 Census block group data for urbanized areas with 1998 data on toxicity‐adjusted exposure to air pollution. Using a unique data set created as a byproduct of the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model, we improve on previous studies of environmental inequality in three ways. First, where previous studies focus on…
Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks? Industrial Air Toxics Exposure in Urban A merica
Objectives The study examines spatial variation in exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial facilities in urban areas of the U nited S tates in relation to the local distribution of the pollution burden. Methods We conducted between‐ and within‐city analysis of geographic microdata from the U . S . E nvironmental P rotection A gency's R isk‐ S creening E nvironmental I ndicators project and data from the 2000 U . S . C ensus. Results Avera…
The Effect of Registered Nurses' Unions on Heart-Attack Mortality
Although hospital work organization affects patient outcomes and in some states registered nurses (R.N.'s) are increasingly forming unions, the relationship between R.N. unions and patient outcomes has received little attention. This study examines the relationship between R.N. unionization and the mortality rate for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or heart attack, in acute-care hospitals in California. After controlling for patient and hospit…
Disparities in Asthma Hospitalization in Massachusetts
Objectives. We examined racial disparities in asthma morbidity in Massachusetts. Methods. We used Massachusetts case-mix data from 1994 to 2002 to screen and track individual asthma morbidity and hospitalizations, which resulted in a sample of 10145 patients who were first hospitalized for asthma between 1997 and 2000. We followed these patients for 2 years after their first hospitalization. Because asthma is widely considered a preventable cause…
Lisa Fe' Saunders 1956–2022 In Memoriam
Psychoanalysis and Female Sexuality
Who Lives on the Wrong Side of the Environmental Tracks? Evidence from the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model
Objective. We analyze the social and economic correlates of air pollution exposure in U.S. cities. Methods. We combine 1990 Census block group data for urbanized areas with 1998 data on toxicity‐adjusted exposure to air pollution. Using a unique data set created as a byproduct of the EPA's Risk‐Screening Environmental Indicators Model, we improve on previous studies of environmental inequality in three ways. First, where previous studies focus on…
The Effect of Registered Nurses' Unions on Heart-Attack Mortality
Although hospital work organization affects patient outcomes and in some states registered nurses (R.N.'s) are increasingly forming unions, the relationship between R.N. unions and patient outcomes has received little attention. This study examines the relationship between R.N. unionization and the mortality rate for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or heart attack, in acute-care hospitals in California. After controlling for patient and hospit…
Disparities in Asthma Hospitalization in Massachusetts
Objectives. We examined racial disparities in asthma morbidity in Massachusetts. Methods. We used Massachusetts case-mix data from 1994 to 2002 to screen and track individual asthma morbidity and hospitalizations, which resulted in a sample of 10145 patients who were first hospitalized for asthma between 1997 and 2000. We followed these patients for 2 years after their first hospitalization. Because asthma is widely considered a preventable cause…
Whose money, whose time? A nonparametric approach to modeling time spent on housework in the United States
This paper argues that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners' earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws: First, it has focused on the effects of women's shares of couples' total earnings on housework, not considering the simpler possibility of an association between women's absolute earnings and housework. Second, it tends to draw uniform inferences across the range of data, including regio…
Inequality, race, and mortality in U.S. cities: A political and econometric review of Deaton and Lubotsky (56:6, 1139–1153, 2003)
Contemplating the Unusual and Unpredictable
248-258
Is Environmental Justice Good for White Folks? Industrial Air Toxics Exposure in Urban A merica
Objectives The study examines spatial variation in exposure to toxic air pollution from industrial facilities in urban areas of the U nited S tates in relation to the local distribution of the pollution burden. Methods We conducted between‐ and within‐city analysis of geographic microdata from the U . S . E nvironmental P rotection A gency's R isk‐ S creening E nvironmental I ndicators project and data from the 2000 U . S . C ensus. Results Avera…
Regional variation in environmental inequality: Industrial air toxics exposure in U.S. cities
What do Health Care Unions do: A Response to Manthous
In response to Manthous, we discuss the role of unions in health care. The ethical quandary that Manthous perceives in health care worker unions is overstated because patient and worker interests are frequently aligned. The search for a "selfless" union overlooks the importance of adequate compensation for providing excellent care. The collective actions employed by health care workers' unions need not include strikes or slowdowns and can be cons…
Measuring environmental inequality
Incarceration and mortality in the United States
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the role of America's overcrowded prisons as vectors of ill health, but robust analyses of the degree to which high rates of incarceration impact population-level health outcomes remain scarce. In this paper, we use county-level panel data from 2927 counties across 43 states between 1983 and 2014 and a novel instrumental variable technique to study the causal effect of penal expansion on age-standardi…
Initially High Correlation between Air Pollution and Covid-19 Mortality Declined to Zero as the Pandemic Progressed: There Is No Evidence for a Causal Link between Air Pollution and Covid-19 Vulnerabi…
Wu et al. found a strong positive association between cumulative daily county-level COVID-19 mortality and long-term average PM 2.5 concentrations for data up until September 2020. We replicated the results of Wu et al. and extended the analysis up until May 2022. The association between PM 2.5 concentration and cumulative COVID-19 mortality fell sharply after September 2020. Using the data available from Wu et al.'s "updated_data" branch up unti…
Assessing U.S. consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of the top 1
Greenhouse Suppliers 100: A ranking of corporate producers of greenhouse gas precursors in the USA
This paper presents the first comprehensive database of corporate suppliers of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas supply stocks in the U.S. economy. The database is a publicly available resource that adds value to existing information sources in two ways. First, we combine several high-quality public data sources, including the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which reports on most products that woul…
Lisa Fe' Saunders 1956–2022 In Memoriam
What a Difference a Datum Makes: Revisiting the Impacts of Cap-and-Trade on Emissions and Environmental Justice
A recent article by Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Kyle Meng suggests that the cap-and-trade program in California led to improvements in the degree of environmental inequity in the state, a result that was taken up with some enthusiasm by proponents of carbon pricing. We suggest that their approach is not designed to capture the variation at the heart of the equity debate and show that the results these authors offer may be problematic because of th…
Environmental inequality in industrial brownfields: Evidence from French municipalities
Pervasive racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S. petrochemical workforce
The burden of petrochemical pollution on communities of Color is well established, but the corresponding distribution of economic benefits is unclear. We evaluated employment equity in chemical manufacturing (NAICS 325) and petroleum/coal products manufacturing (NAICS 324) among U.S. states and core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) relative to racial education gaps, using data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Census Bureau. As …
A systematic literature review on residential demand response with a focus on opportunities for low-income communities
Economics (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Environmental justice (6 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Population (5 works)