This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the … summer school and fall holiday across the 16 federal states in Germany. Leveraging a difference-in-differences design with … effect on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 among children or any spill-over effect on older generations. We also do not find any …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … behaviours as a reaction to stress. Investigating the possible protective effects of mental health support, I find that it can …

Taking advantage of temporal and geographical variations in the timing of school holidays in Germany, this paper finds … that school holidays cause an 19 percent (0.03 percentage points) decrease in the probability of youth suicide. This effect … find evidence of a spike in suicide propensity in the first two days following the end of school holidays. The results are …