ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, we link the universe of all 170 million … hospital admissions, along with all 8 million deaths, with weather and pollution data reported at the day-county level. Extreme … simultaneous weather and pollution conditions. We find strong evidence for "harvesting", and that the instantaneous heat …

Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from …

We analyze the exposure of different income groups to the 2021 floods in Germany, which serve as an exemplary case of …

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

energy and transport consumption and costs in Germany to assess the distributional and environmental implications when …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …