Offene Schulen können durch die Testpflicht zur Eindämmung der Pandemie beitragen. Neue IZA-Studie von @IngoIsphording Nico Pestel Marc Diederichs Reyn van Ewijk analysiert Auswirkungen der Schulöffnungen nach den Sommerferien auf das Infektionsgeschehen. newsroom.iza.org/de/archive/res…

Will the Covid-19 Pandemic Leave a Lasting Legacy in Children’s Skill Development? Policy brief of review w/ K. Werner now out in 👉CESifo Forum cesifo.org/en/publikation… Somewhat ironic: although children least affected on physical health, pandemic hit them particularly hard.

Strong case for FAST rollout of boosters. Effect of two doses wanes quickly after 4-6 months. "We should stop calling them boosters and start calling them third doses."

Very happy to hear our paper "Schools under mandatory testing can mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2" got accepted at PNASNews! Many thanks to my invaluable co-authors Marc Diederichs, @IngoIsphording and Nico Pestel!

Excited to host the #Health #Economics Workshop co-organised by bettina siflinger & the international branch of the German Society for Health Economics. Running in person Tilburg University over this Friday & Saturday.

Schools under mandatory testing can mitigate the spread of #SARSCoV2 Our paper is now available in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNASNews! (w/ Marc Diederichs Reyn van Ewijk @IngoIsphording) A short 🧵1/4 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

In #NRW enden bald die #Sommerferien. Steigen die Corona-Fallzahlen dadurch deutlich an? Nicht zwingend. Mit #Testpflicht bremsen offene Schulen die Inzidenz sogar. Testpflicht zum Schulstart wäre also angebracht! #Infektionsschutzgesetz Unsere Studie in PNASNews 👇🏻

Now in @socscimed: “Are grandchildren good for you?”. tinyurl.com/5n72z3st Well-being goes down when people become grandparents. But only if little family contact and don’t provide childcare. If profile is opposite, well-being remains unchanged & some health measures improve.

We are delighted to welcome Larry Hedges and Eric Hedberg to Universität Mainz this week for a workshop on "Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-Analyses"! 💡 Do not miss Larry Hedges' seminar talk at 4pm today (Dekanatssaal): "Why Are 'Clinical' Effects Invisible?"

Call for abstracts "Causal Methods in Early-Life Research: An Interdisciplinary Workshop" is out now! Bringing together researchers from economics, epidemiology, medicine & social sciences from Sept. 25-27 in Bad Kreuznach (Frankfurt region). See t.ly/u3SFc

Interdisciplinary workshop on long-run health effects of early-life circumstances: Sept 25-27 Organized by epidemiologists from Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK & economists from Universität Mainz Interdisciplinary Public Policy JGU Mainz Keynote Maya Rossin-Slater Apply till Apr 30 t.ly/u3SFc #DOHaD International DOHaD Society Sabine Gabrysch

Interested in working with the data from the new German Family Demographic Panel (FReDA)? Join our Autumn School, Sept. 30 - Oct. 2

Noch gibt es frei Plätze um FReDA kennen zu lernen ....

Excited to share: our #review + #MetaAnalysis on #Ramadan during #pregnancy now published in Human Reproduction Update, the leading journal in Obstetrics & Gynecology. t.ly/NqRTJ Finally, all we’ve learned on this important topic condensed in one place.