David Molitor

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

David Molitor is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, David Molitor has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 9 papers in General Health Professions and 5 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in David Molitor's work include Climate Change and Health Impacts (9 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (7 papers). David Molitor is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change and Health Impacts (9 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (7 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (7 papers). David Molitor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. David Molitor's co-authors include Julian Reif, Tatyana Deryugina, Nolan Miller, Garth Heutel, Damon Jones, Leila Agha, Eric Zou, Laura L. Payne, Corey White and David W. Chan and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Economic Review and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

In The Last Decade

David Molitor

17 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidenc... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2019 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction
    2019 420 citations Tatyana Deryugina, Garth Heutel et al. American Economic Review profile →
  2. What do Workplace Wellness Programs do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study*
    2019 230 citations Damon Jones, David Molitor et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Molitor United States 12 393 380 347 137 95 18 1.1k
Julian Reif United States 10 304 0.8× 404 1.1× 277 0.8× 99 0.7× 87 0.9× 19 1.0k
Timothy K.M. Beatty United States 19 193 0.5× 423 1.1× 317 0.9× 130 0.9× 109 1.1× 61 1.2k
Lisa A. Robinson United States 21 255 0.6× 692 1.8× 436 1.3× 155 1.1× 35 0.4× 77 1.8k
Nicholas Sanders United States 10 307 0.8× 195 0.5× 119 0.3× 105 0.8× 104 1.1× 26 733
Tom Chang United States 15 495 1.3× 731 1.9× 128 0.4× 140 1.0× 97 1.0× 24 1.5k
Michael Ash United States 19 262 0.7× 293 0.8× 221 0.6× 500 3.6× 31 0.3× 52 1.1k
Zongfu Mao China 27 551 1.4× 334 0.9× 417 1.2× 212 1.5× 176 1.9× 87 2.1k
Kanyiva Muindi Kenya 15 306 0.8× 111 0.3× 178 0.5× 111 0.8× 157 1.7× 37 937
Elaine Hill United States 21 324 0.8× 162 0.4× 203 0.6× 191 1.4× 37 0.4× 87 1.4k
Dana E. Goin United States 22 322 0.8× 188 0.5× 331 1.0× 147 1.1× 54 0.6× 66 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by David Molitor

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Molitor

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Molitor

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Molitor. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Molitor based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Molitor. David Molitor is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Molitor, David & Corey White. (2024). Do Cities Mitigate or Exacerbate Environmental Damages to Health?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Molitor, David & Corey White. (2023). Do cities mitigate or exacerbate environmental damages to health?. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 107. 103973–103973. 3 indexed citations
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Molitor, David, Jamie T. Mullins, & Corey White. (2023). Air pollution and suicide in rural and urban America: Evidence from wildfire smoke. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(38). e2221621120–e2221621120. 26 indexed citations
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Molitor, David, et al.. (2022). Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 106(6). 1558–1575. 29 indexed citations
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Deryugina, Tatyana, Nolan Miller, David Molitor, & Julian Reif. (2021). Geographic and Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Benefits of Reducing Air Pollution in the United States. PubMed. 2. 157–189. 9 indexed citations
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Deryugina, Tatyana & David Molitor. (2021). The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity. The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 35(4). 147–170. 25 indexed citations
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Deryugina, Tatyana & David Molitor. (2021). The Causal Effects of Place on Health and Longevity. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Heutel, Garth, Nolan Miller, & David Molitor. (2020). Adaptation and the Mortality Effects of Temperature Across U.S. Climate Regions. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 103(4). 1–14. 96 indexed citations
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Deryugina, Tatyana & David Molitor. (2020). Does When You Die Depend on Where You Live? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina. American Economic Review. 110(11). 3602–3633. 63 indexed citations
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Zou, Eric, et al.. (2020). Emergency Visits for Thunderstorm-Related Respiratory Illnesses Among Older Adults. JAMA Internal Medicine. 180(9). 1248–1248. 14 indexed citations
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Reif, Julian, David W. Chan, Damon Jones, Laura L. Payne, & David Molitor. (2020). Effects of a Workplace Wellness Program on Employee Health, Health Beliefs, and Medical Use. JAMA Internal Medicine. 180(7). 952–952. 55 indexed citations
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Deryugina, Tatyana, Garth Heutel, Nolan Miller, David Molitor, & Julian Reif. (2019). The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction. American Economic Review. 109(12). 4178–4219. 420 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jones, Damon, David Molitor, & Julian Reif. (2019). What do Workplace Wellness Programs do? Evidence from the Illinois Workplace Wellness Study*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 134(4). 1747–1791. 230 indexed citations breakdown →
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Molitor, David. (2018). The Evolution of Physician Practice Styles: Evidence from Cardiologist Migration. American Economic Journal Economic Policy. 10(1). 326–356. 95 indexed citations
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Heutel, Garth, Nolan Miller, & David Molitor. (2017). Adaptation and the Mortality Effects of Temperature Across U.S. Climate Regions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Jena, Anupam B., Andrew Olenski, David Molitor, & Nolan Miller. (2017). Association between rainfall and diagnoses of joint or back pain: retrospective claims analysis. BMJ. 359. j5326–j5326. 11 indexed citations
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Agha, Leila & David Molitor. (2017). The Local Influence of Pioneer Investigators on Technology Adoption: Evidence from New Cancer Drugs. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 100(1). 29–44. 32 indexed citations
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Molitor, David, et al.. (2016). Labor Market and Program Participation Impacts of Health and Productivity Shocks: Evidence from Forest Fire Smoke. Upjohn Research (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research). 1 indexed citations

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