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December 15, 2021

Coal phase-out in 2030 – what costs will employees face?

Wage insurance scheme could substantially reduce welfare costs arising from lower wages and job security

  • coal exit
  • environment
  • job loss
  • structural change
  • Luke Haywood
  • Markus Janser
  • Nicolas Koch
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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

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
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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

July 10, 2018

How the Chernobyl cloud affected cognitive abilities in Germany

Even low doses of radiation can have significant human capital costs.

  • chernobyl
  • cognitive skills
  • contamination
  • environment
  • Germany
  • health
  • human capital
  • nuclear energy
  • nuclear power
  • radiation
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Florian Wozny
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July 7, 2017

Public health in utero: How external factors influence birth outcomes

By Jeanna Canapari (Yale University) In the study of birth outcomes, going to extremes is not always necessary. While intense […]

  • birth outcomes
  • China
  • environment
  • fetal development
  • health
  • nutrition
  • prenatal care
  • Ramadan
  • Jeanna Canapari
  • Xi Chen
  • Xiaobo Zhang
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January 8, 2016

Award-winning paper on the costs of environmental policy

The study by Reed Walker (UC Berkeley) on “The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act […]

  • CAAA
  • Clean Air Act
  • environment
  • environmental policy
  • pollution
  • reallocative costs
  • sectoral shift
  • workforce
  • Reed Walker
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October 26, 2015

How the “bobos” change cities and raise commuting costs

How do the “bobos”, the new leftist bourgeoisie populating Western capitals’ city centers, alter the character and the policies in […]

  • amenities
  • Berlin
  • bobo
  • bourgeoisie
  • cities
  • commuting
  • environment
  • housing prices
  • Paris
  • San Francisco
  • urbanization
  • Gilles Saint-Paul
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October 12, 2015

Mental health costs of access to unsafe drinking water

 Fulfilling one of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals five years before schedule, 2.6 billion people gained access to sources of […]

  • Arsenic contamination
  • Bangladesh
  • environment
  • mental health
  • pollution
  • UN Millennium Development Goals
  • water
  • WHO
  • Allan H. Smith
  • Annabelle Krause
  • Elena O. Lingas
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Mahfuzar Rahman
  • Shyamal Chowdhury
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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
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September 2, 2013

What is the right price of clean air?

How much are people willing to pay for clean air? Driven by this question, empirical economists have come up with […]

  • economic costs
  • environment
  • ozone
  • pharmaceutical purchases
  • pollution
  • Joseph S. Shapiro
  • Michael Greenstone
  • Olivier Deschenes

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