Dr. Nico Pestel

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Nico Pestel is a Senior Research Associate and Team Leader at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn. He co-coordinates IZA's program area "Environment, Health, and Labor Markets". He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cologne in 2013.

Nico is an applied economist with research interests in labor and public economics as well as in political economy and environmental economics. He is particularly interested in the labor market effects of public policies, the relationship between household formation and inequality as well as the effects of environmental conditions on worker productivity and health.

Nico joined IZA as a Resident Research Affiliate under the IZA Scholarship Program in 2009. He became a Research Associate in 2013, a Senior Research Associate in 2016 and a Team Leader in 2019.

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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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14180
Job Search during a Pandemic Recession: Survey Evidence from the Netherlands
Maria Balgova, Dr. Simon Trenkle, Christian Zimpelmann, Nico Pestel
Revise & Resubmit at Labour Economics
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 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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12545
Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals
Nico Pestel, Florian Wozny
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11725
Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
Arnaud Chevalier, Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11175
Searching on Campus? Marriage Market Effects of the Student Gender Composition
Nico Pestel
revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics of the Household
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
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