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November 16, 2021

Schools may contribute to stemming the pandemic

Mandatory COVID-19 tests at German schools helped curb infections after the summer break

  • COVID-19
  • pandemic
  • schools
  • testing
  • Ingo Isphording
  • Marc Diederichs
  • Nico Pestel
  • Reyn van Ewijk
Research

September 13, 2021

Air pollution reduces electoral support for government parties

New study identifies emotions as an explanation why poor air quality affects voting decisions

  • air pollution
  • behavior
  • elections
  • emotions
  • environment
  • voting
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Luna Bellani
  • Nico Pestel
  • Stefano Ceolotto
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July 1, 2021

How environmental pollution affects educational and labor market outcomes

IZA workshop discusses new research on environment, health and labor markets

  • environment
  • health
  • Nico Pestel
  • Olivier Deschenes
Research

October 13, 2020

School re-openings after summer breaks in Germany did not increase SARS-CoV-2 cases

New IZA study suggests that hygiene measures in German schools worked well to contain the spread of the virus

  • Bildung
  • COVID-19
  • Schule
  • Ingo Isphording
  • Marc Lipfert
  • Nico Pestel
Research

July 3, 2020

Poor air quality increases COVID-19 deaths

Moving at-risk patients out of polluted areas could reduce the case fatality rate

  • COVID-19
  • death
  • environment
  • health
  • particulate matter
  • pollution
  • Ingo E. Isphording
  • Nico Pestel
Research

October 4, 2019

Indoor air pollution hampers cognitive performance

Chess players make more mistakes when breathing dirtier air

  • air quality
  • cognitive skills
  • decision making
  • fine particulate matter
  • pollution
  • Juan Palacios
  • Nico Pestel
  • Steffen Künn
Research

September 27, 2019

Low Emission Zones in Germany improve population health

Reduced air pollution in urban areas translates into fewer circulatory and respiratory diseases

  • air pollution
  • emission
  • environment
  • health
  • traffic
  • Florian Wozny
  • Nico Pestel
Research

August 30, 2018

Immigration of poor voters increases redistribution

West German cities responded with higher taxes and welfare spending to post-WWII inflow of forced migrants

  • expellees
  • immigration
  • natives
  • redistribution
  • refugees
  • taxation
  • voting
  • welfare
  • Andreas Lichter
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Nico Pestel
Research

February 16, 2018

Searching on campus: Marriage market effects of the student gender composition

The growing success of online dating platforms seems to indicate that finding your partner in the “real” world becomes harder. […]

  • education
  • female
  • gender
  • inequality
  • male
  • marriage
  • university
  • Nico Pestel
Research

March 3, 2017

Decoding attitudes towards migrants

The recent political success of right-wing populists in the US and in many European countries is often attributed to a […]

  • anti-immigration movement
  • attitudes
  • extremism
  • immigration
  • immigration polices
  • migration
  • public information campaigns
  • Salience
  • Alexis Grigorieff
  • Christopher Roth
  • Diego Ubfal
  • Giovanni Facchini
  • Hiroyuki Nakata
  • Ingo E. Isphording
  • Nico Pestel
  • Tommaso Colussi
  • Yotam Margalit
Research

April 17, 2015

Air pollution impairs productivity of professional soccer players

Air pollution is the top environmental risk factor of premature death. Annual costs of environmental damage for the European countries […]

  • age
  • air pollution
  • Bundesliga
  • economic growth
  • environment
  • environmental policy
  • Germany
  • labor productivity
  • match
  • passes
  • physical burden
  • pollution
  • population health
  • professional soccer players
  • Andreas Lichter
  • Eric Sommer
  • Nico Pestel
Research

January 7, 2014

Making work more attractive: increase the VAT and reduce labor taxes

What is the right mix between direct taxes, such as personal income taxes or social security contributions, and indirect taxes […]

  • consumption
  • direct taxation
  • employment
  • Germany
  • income distribution
  • income taxation
  • indirect taxation
  • labor
  • microsimulation
  • redistribution
  • social security contributions
  • VAT
  • work incentives
  • Eric Sommer
  • Nico Pestel
Research

March 14, 2013

Ten years of “Agenda 2010”

A decade ago the German labor market was regarded as a sick patient. Today it is performing exceptionally well and […]

  • active labor market policy
  • Agenda 2010
  • atypical employment
  • crisis
  • Germany
  • IZA
  • labor market reform
  • labor policy
  • long-term unemployment
  • short-time work
  • start-ups
  • training
  • Andrea Kuhn
  • Andreas Peichl
  • Annette Bergemann
  • Arne Uhlendorff
  • Birgit Jesske
  • Eric Thode
  • Frank Wießner
  • Gerard J. van den Berg
  • Hilmar Schneider
  • Holger Bonin
  • Jacob Steinwede
  • Jochen Kluve
  • Karl Brenke
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Lena Jacobi
  • Lutz C. Kaiser
  • Marc Schneider
  • Marco Caliendo
  • Nico Pestel
  • Paul Marx
  • René Fahr
  • Rosemarie Zenker
  • Sebastian Siegloch
  • Steffen Künn
  • Tina Hinz
  • Ulf Rinne
  • Uwe Sunde
  • Verena Tobsch
  • Werner Eichhorst
  • Zhong Zhao
Research

March 9, 2013

U.S. budget cuts likely to aggravate income inequality

The U.S. budget cuts bear large economic and political risks for U.S. citizens as they will aggravate income inequality. This […]

  • austerity
  • crisis
  • debt
  • inequality
  • tax policy
  • U.S. economy
  • Andreas Peichl
  • Dirk Neumann
  • Herwig Immervoll
  • Mathias Dolls
  • Nico Pestel
  • Olivier Bargain
  • Sebastian Siegloch

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