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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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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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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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Job search and unemployment insurance : new evidence from time use data

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average unemployed worker in the U.S. devotes about 41 minutes to job search on weekdays, which is...

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The lot of the unemployed : a time use perspective

Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Müller, Andreas (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides new evidence on time use and subjective well-being of employed and unemployed individuals in 14 countries. We devote particular attention to characterizing and modeling job search intensity, measured by the amount of time devoted to searching for a new job. Job search...

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