News Summary

• Jisung Park is an assistant professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice with a secondary appointment in the Wharton School.
• He studies how extreme heat affects workers and labor market inequality.
• “All these little drips of productivity loss and subtle burns here and there really add up and are some of the most important ways in which climate change affects not only cities, but also our economy more broadly,” Park says.
• Park: “There’s an opportunity for us to test and get out of the hot house and get people out of their house.”