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Pandemic meets pollution: poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...

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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1978 - 2009 : a decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2011

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...

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Partisan tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979 - 2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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Indoor air quality and cognitive performance

Künn, Steffen; Palacios, Juan; Pestel, Nico - 2019

This paper studies the causal impact of indoor air quality on the cognitive performance of individuals using data from official chess tournaments. We use a chess engine to evaluate the quality of moves made by individual players and merge this information with measures of air quality inside the...

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Killing prescriptions softly: low emission zones and child health from birth to school

Klauber, Hannah; Holub, Felix; Koch, Nikolas; Pestel, Nico - 2021

We examine the persistence of the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution on children's health from birth to … school enrollment using administrative public health insurance records covering one third of all children in Germany. For … medication for at least five years. The initially latent health response materializes only gradually in lower medication usage …

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Low emission zones for better health : evidence from German hospitals

Pestel, Nico; Wozny, Florian - 2019

This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing … urban areas and that these improvements in air quality translate into population health benefits. The number of diagnoses …

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Multidimensional measurement of richness : theory and an application to Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2010

considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in … driven by health and to a lesser extent by wealth. -- Affluence ; multidimensional measurement ; mobility ; elites …

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Multidimensional well-being at the top : evidence for Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011

German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-being, we include health as a proxy for …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …

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Schools under mandatory testing can mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Diederichs, Marc; Ewijk, Reyn van - 2021

We use event-study models based on staggered summer vacations in Germany to estimate the effect of school re-openings after the summer of 2021 on the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Estimations are based on daily counts of confirmed coronavirus infections across all 401 German counties. Our results are...

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