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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution

Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020

robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

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Charging NOx emitters for health damages : an exploratory analysis

Mauzerall, Denise L.; Sultan, Babar; Kim, Namsoug; … - 2005

We present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States. We use a regional atmospheric model of the eastern United States, the Comprehensive...

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Democracy, inequality and the environment when citizens can mitigate privately or act collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - 2010

either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …

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Industrial robots, workers' safety, and health

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca; Wang, Tianyi - 2022

. Employing longitudinal data from Germany, we exploit within-individual changes in robot exposure and document that a one …

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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015

effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times … 20% increase in accident-related injuries, a 14% increase in particle pollution, and an 11% increase in hospital …

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Right and yet wrong : a spatio temporal evaluation of Germany's COVID-19 containment policy

Berlemann, Michael; Haustein, Erik - 2020

in Germany on the early stages of the epidemic, is not optimal. …

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Forest fires : why the large year-to-year variation in forests burned?

Apt, Jay; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - 2023

Quantifying factors giving rise to temporal variation in forest fires is important for advancing scientific understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area burned in California can be accounted for by variation in...

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Changing electricity markets : quantifying the price effects of greening the energy matrix

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022 - Original Version: June 2022, this version: July 2022

We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) retail electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using machine learning. The agnostic random forest approach that we use is able to reduce in-sample root mean square errors (RMSEs) by around 50% when compared to a standard linear...

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Climate policy without commitment

Golombek, Rolf; Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael - 2010

Climate mitigation policy should be imposed over a long period, and spur development of new technologies in order to make stabilization of green house gas concentrations economically feasible. The government may announce current and future policy packages that stimulate current R&D in...

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