Jesse Anttila-Hughes

Associate Professor, University of San Francisco's Department of Economics

Professor Anttila-Hughes received his PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. His research focuses on understanding the social impacts of environmental processes, particularly those influenced by environmental degradation and climate change.

Professor Anttila-Hughes' current research areas include: public health impacts of the climate; behavioral responses to new information about environmental risks; and determinants of the spread of environmental attitudes and ideas.

Recent work by Jesse Anttila-Hughes

The deadly toll of marketing infant formula in low- and middle-income countries

A careful examination of Nestlé’s marketing behaviour shows that Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981

Health

Jesse Anttila-Hughes Lia Fernald Paul Gertler Patrick Krause Eleanor Tsai Bruce Wydick

Published 31.10.23

Jesse Anttila-Hughes

Recent work by Jesse Anttila-Hughes

The deadly toll of marketing infant formula in low- and middle-income countries