Rick Nevin

{{Short description|American economist}}

Rick Nevin is an economic consultant who acts as an adviser to the National Center for Healthy Housing and has worked on the Federal Strategy to eliminate childhood lead poisoning.{{cite web|url=http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2007/07/lead-poisoning-.html|title=Riehl World View: Lead Poisoning And Crime}} Amongst other research, he has published papers in the journal Environmental Research claiming to demonstrate a link between environmental lead exposure and violent crime in the United States{{cite journal|doi=10.1006/enrs.1999.4045 |author=Nevin, Rick|date=May 2000|title=How Lead Exposure Relates to Temporal Changes in IQ, Violent Crime, and Unwed Pregnancy|journal=Environmental Research|volume=83|issue=1|pages=1–22|pmid=10845777|bibcode=2000ER.....83....1N|s2cid=18983793 |url=https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35324/1/MPRA_paper_35324.pdf}} and in nine countries worldwide.{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/j.envres.2007.02.008|author=Nevin, Rick|date=July 2007|title=Understanding international crime trends: The legacy of preschool lead exposure|journal=Environmental Research|volume=104|issue=3|pages=315–336|pmid=17451672|bibcode=2007ER....104..315N|url=https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35338/1/MPRA_paper_35338.pdf}} This research has been publicized in the press by a Washington Post article in July 2007,{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/07/AR2007070701073_pf.html|title=Research Links Lead Exposure, Criminal Activity|newspaper=Washington Post|date=July 8, 2007|accessdate=2007-07-13 | first=Shankar | last=Vedantam}} by Mother Jones in 2013,{{cite news |last1=Drum |first1=Kevin |title=Lead: America's Real Criminal Element |url=https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/ |access-date=1 March 2022 |work=Mother Jones |date=January 2013}} and elsewhere, including the UK's Independent in October 2007{{cite news|url=http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104678.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071029023438/http://environment.independent.co.uk/green_living/article3104678.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 29, 2007|title=Ban on leaded petrol 'has cut crime rates around the world'|work=The Independent|date=October 28, 2007|accessdate=2007-12-01 | location=London | first=Geoffrey | last=Lean}} and Guardian in 2013.{{cite news |last1=Monbiot |first1=George |title=Yes, lead poisoning could really be a cause of violent crime |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-crime-lead-poisoning-british-export |access-date=3 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=7 January 2013}} Nevin's work on lead pollution has also featured in numerous books about public health,{{cite book |last1=Markowitz |first1=Gerald |last2=Rosner |first2=David |title=Lead Wars The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children |date=2014 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=9780520283930 |page=221 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pYlIDwAAQBAJ |access-date=1 March 2022}} social sciences and social justice,{{cite book |last1=Karaali |first1=Gizem |last2=Khadjavi |first2=Lily S. |title=Mathematics for Social Justice Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics |date=2021 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |isbn=9781470449278 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K1xQEAAAQBAJ |access-date=3 March 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Regoli |first1=Robert |last2=Hewitt |first2=John |last3=DeLisi |first3=Matt |title=Delinquency in Society |date=2011 |publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning |isbn=9780763777906 |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v6MTZ2WhcfIC |access-date=1 March 2022}} criminology,{{cite book |last1=Siegel |first1=Larry |title=Criminology: The Core |date=February 2016 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=9781305887336 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VZZ4CgAAQBAJ |access-date=3 April 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Vito |first1=Gennaro |last2=Maahs |first2=Jeffrey |last3=Holmes |first3=Ronald |title=Criminology: Theory, Research, and Policy |date=2006 |publisher=Jones and Bartlett |isbn=9780763730017 |page=482 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tehE36CziMC}} environmentalism and sustainability,{{cite book |last1=Nielsen |first1=Carrie |title=Unleaded: How Changing Our Gasoline Changed Everything |date=2021 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=9781978821026 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wGE7EAAAQBAJ |access-date=3 March 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Brinkmann |first1=Robert |title=Introduction to Sustainability |date=2020 |publisher=Wiley Blackwell |isbn=9781119675495 |edition=Second |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sMUQEAAAQBAJ |access-date=1 March 2022}} and air pollution.{{cite book |last1=Woodford |first1=Chris|author1-link=Chris Woodford (author) |title=Breathless: Why Air Pollution Matters and How it Affects You |date=2021 |publisher=Icon |location=London |isbn=9781785787102 |page=129 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0lEXEAAAQBAJ}}