Nico Pestel

Research Fellow

State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia

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Dr. Nico Pestel is Head of Division at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, the executive office of the Prime Minister of Germany’s largest federal state. Before moving into public policy, Nico was an Associate Professor at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Prior to that, he spent several years at IZA in Bonn, where he served in multiple roles, including Head of the research team Policy Challenges and Coordinator of the network program area "Environment, Health, and Labor Markets". Nico earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Cologne in 2013. His research focuses on applied labor economics, environmental and public economics, as well as political economy.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18176
The Immediate and Lasting Effects of Heat Waves On Workers
Hannah Klauber, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17436
Long-Term Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage in Germany: New Data and Estimators
Marco Caliendo, Nico Pestel, Rebecca Olthaus
published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102648
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17344
Polluted Job Search: The Impact of Poor Air Quality on Reservation Wages
Mariët Bogaard, Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios, Nico Pestel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14885
Why Do Relatively Few Economists Work on Climate Change? A Survey
Nico Pestel, Andrew J. Oswald
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14844
Schools under Mandatory Testing Can Mitigate the Spread of SARS-CoV-2
Ingo E. Isphording, marc diederichs, Reyn van Ewijk, Nico Pestel
revised version published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, 119 (26), e2201724119
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14718
Air Pollution Affects Decision-Making: Evidence from the Ballot Box
Luna Bellani, Stefano Ceolotto, Benjamin Elsner, Nico Pestel
published as 'The Political Fallout of Air Pollution' in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(18), e2314428121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14376
Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School
Hannah Klauber, Felix Holub, Nicolas Koch, Nico Pestel, Nolan Ritter, Alexander Rohlf
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024, 16 (2), 220-248
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14180
Job Search during a Pandemic Recession: Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
Maria Balgova, Simon Trenkle, Christian Zimpelmann, Nico Pestel
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 75, 102142
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13790
School Re-Openings after Summer Breaks in Germany Did Not Increase SARS-CoV-2 Cases
Ingo E. Isphording, Marc Lipfert, Nico Pestel
revised version published as 'Does re-opening schools contribute to the spread of SARS2? Evidence from staggered summer breaks in Germany' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104426
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13418
Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel
revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 108, 102448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12632
Indoor Air Quality and Cognitive Performance
Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios, Nico Pestel
revised version published as 'Indoor Air Quality and Strategic Decision Making' in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (9), 5354-5377
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12545
Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals
Nico Pestel, Florian Wozny
revised version published as 'Health Effects of Low Emission Zones: Evidence from German Hospitals' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, 2021, 102512
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11725
Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
Arnaud Chevalier, Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel
published as 'Forced Migration and Local Public Policies: Evidence from Post-War West Germany' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (2), 915-962
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11175
Searching on Campus? Marriage Market Effects of the Student Gender Composition
Nico Pestel
revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19(4), 1175-1207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10417
Minority Salience and Political Extremism
Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel
revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9822
Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations
Karina Doorley, Nico Pestel
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(4), 843-863
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9151
The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply
Charlotte Bartels, Nico Pestel
revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8964
Productivity Effects of Air Pollution: Evidence from Professional Soccer
Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel, Eric Sommer
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 54-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8553
Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model
Max Löffler, Andreas Peichl, Nico Pestel, Sebastian Siegloch, Eric Sommer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8482
Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Nico Pestel
published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica , 2017, 84 (333), 104-127
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