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• Events // 13.11.2024

  Long-Term Consequences of Air Pollution Does Age or Years of Exposure Matter?

  exposure to pollution by leveraging the sharp decrease in imported sulfur dioxide – the primary driver of acid rain – in Norway following the enactment of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution [...] reductions in pollution exposure before and after the decrease, to cohorts born in municipalities with minimal initial exposure. Using a difference-in-differences design, they find that higher pollution levels
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  News // 24.05.2024

  Scientific Exchange on Energy Transition and Climate Change

  This year, the conference focused on climate policies decreasing private and firm emissions, air pollution, energy conservation and behavioural aspects of decarbonization. - Professor Sebastian Rausch
• Events // 10.01.2024

  The Cost of Air Pollution for Workers and Firms

  unique employer-employee data and granular measures of air pollution in France from 2009 to 2015. The authors exploit variation in air pollution induced by changes in monthly wind directions at the postcode [...] e. This suggests a potentially large effect of pollution on the productivity of non-absent workers. The authors estimate that reducing air pollution in France in line with the World Health Organization’s [...] Poor air quality negatively affects workers’ health and cognitive functions, but we know little about the countrywide consequences for firms. The paper presented in this ZEW Research Seminar estimates
• Publications // 11.09.2023

  Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings - Measuring environmental (eco-) innovation

  requires measurement of eco-innovation and outcomes, as determined by the absolute level of air, soil and water pollutants. In addition to the OECD Manual’s (4th edition) identification of product and process
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  News // 05.06.2023

  International Guests Discuss Energy Transition at ZEW

  various topics of energy, climate and environmental economics. This year, the conference focused on air pollution, emissions trading, energy conservation and climate policy. - Professor Sebastian Rausch, head
• Publications // 05.01.2023

  Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings - The Revolution Suffocates Its Children – The Short- and Long- Term Effects of Air Pollution in Socialist East Germany
• Publications // 11.10.2022

  ZEW Documentation - ME-FINE: Mannheim European panel on Financial Indicators and Emissions

  Bureau van Dijk’s Orbis database with data on pollutant emissions from the European Pollutant Emission Register (EPER) and its successor, the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR). The [...] sectors and countries, representing about more than half of the emissions of the most common (air) pollutants.
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  News // 15.07.2022

  Strong Presence and Diversity of Topics: ZEW Researchers Present Research Results at Conference in Rimini

  Institutional Norms on Individual Behavior. Yasemin Karamik: Gone with the Wind: The Effect of Air Pollution on Crime – Evidence from Germany Martin Kesternich: The Unintended Consequences of Pro-Environmental
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  Press Releases // 30.05.2022

  Increasing Fine Particle Pollution Leads to Higher Crime Rates

  effects of air pollution from the effects of human activities that cause air pollution (e.g. traffic) and weather conditions that promote air pollution. By using the variation in air pollution caused by [...] development of weather (especially wind), air pollution and crime. The data on wind comes from the German Meteorological Service (DWD) and the data on air pollution from the Umweltbundesamt (UBA, “Federal [...] able to tell the effect of air pollution on crime from other factors. In recent years, research in medicine, biology and psychology has looked at the ways in which air pollution can influence criminal behaviour
• Publications // 27.05.2022

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Gone with the Wind: The Effect of Air Pollution on Crime - Evidence from Germany

  impact of air pollution on crime in large cities. We provide first evidence on the potential effect of air pollution on criminal activity using a broader set of geographical regions with lower air pollution [...] (BW) and Rhineland-Palatinate (RLP) in Germany from 2015 until 2017. We exploit the variation in air pollution which is attributable to changes in daily wind direction. We find that an increase of one standard