Nico Pestel

Program Coordinator and Visiting Research Fellow

Maastricht University

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Nico Pestel is an Associate Professor at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Cologne in 2013. Before joining ROA in November 2021, he held various positions at IZA in Bonn. He was head of the institute's research team "Policy Challenges" and coordinator of IZA's network program area "Environment, Health, and Labor Markets". Nico's research interests are in applied labor, environmental and public economics as well as in political economy. He is particularly interested in the role of environmental conditions for labor market outcomes, human capital formation as well as decision-making.

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IZA Publications

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
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 forthcoming in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
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
revised version forthcoming as 'Forced Migration and Local Public Policies: Evidence from Post-War West Germany' in: Journal of the European Economic Association
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