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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

November 15, 2019

How traffic pollution affects children’s academic performance

Lower test scores, more behavioral incidents, and more absences

  • absences
  • academic performance
  • education
  • pollution
  • school
  • test scores
  • Claudia Persico
  • David Simon
  • Jennifer Heissel
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
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May 27, 2019

How environmental policies affect the labor market

IZA workshop evaluated the costs and benefits of reducing pollution and mitigating global warming

  • climate change
  • climate costs
  • environmental policy
  • human capital
  • pollution
Research

April 26, 2018

Air pollution increases crime in London

Higher levels of air pollution in London increase the rate of most types of crime in the capital and, in […]

  • Air Quality Index
  • crime
  • health
  • London
  • police
  • pollution
  • stress
  • Lutz Sager
  • Malvina Bondy
  • Sefi Roth
Research

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
Research

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
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 24, 2014

Global warming: one hot day costs up to 70 cents per capita

With rising temperatures, sea levels and more and more episodes of extreme weather, most people agree that the global climate […]

  • advanced economies
  • ambient air pollution
  • climate change
  • economic costs
  • extreme weather
  • global warming
  • health
  • NO2
  • O3
  • PM10
  • pollution
  • Maike Schmitt
  • Martin Karlsson
  • Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Research

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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