Dr. Andreas Kammerlander

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Journal Articles

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2023

• Andreas Kammerlander, Günther G. Schulze
  Local economic growth and infant mortality
  2023 Journal of Health Economics
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  We estimate the effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and a total of 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we show that an increase in local economic activity significantly reduces the probability that the same mother loses a child before its first birthday.

2021

• Kammerlander, Andreas, Schulze, Günther G.
  Local Economic Growth and Infant Mortality
  2021 CESifo Working Papers, volume: 9315, pages: 1 - 25
• Kammerlander, Andreas, Schulze, Günther G.
  Political-economic correlates of environmental policy
  2021 Environmental Research Letters, volume: 16, issue: 2, page: 024047
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  What are the correlates of environmental performance? In particular, does globalization lead to environmental degradation? What is the role of democracy for environmental performance and do left-wing governments really care more about the environment? Using a comprehensive measure of environmental performance, we test these three hypotheses for a panel of 134 countries for the period 2007-2016. Our results are surprising – we find no evidence that democracies are cleaner, left-wing governments perform better than right-wing governments, but centrist governments clearly have the highest environmental performance, and globalization is good for the environment. The positive impact of globalization is driven by social globalization ─ economic and political globalization do not play a role.
  
  
   
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• von Cube, Maja, Timsit, Jéan-Francois, Kammerlander, Andreas, Schumacher, Martin
  Quantifying and communicating the burden of COVID-19
  2021 BMC Med Res Methodol, volume: 21, issue: 164, pages: 1 - 11
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  Background: An essential aspect of preventing further COVID-19 outbreaks and to learn for future pandemics is the evaluation of diferent political strategies, which aim at reducing transmission of and mortality due to COVID-19. One important aspect in this context is the comparison of attributable mortality. Methods: We give a comprehensive overview of six epidemiological measures that are used to quantify COVID-19 attributable mortality (p-score, standardized mortality ratio, absolute number of excess deaths, per capita rate, z-score and the population attributable fraction). Results: By defning the six measures based on observed and expected deaths, we explain their relationship. Moreo‑ ver, three publicly available data examples serve to illustrate the interpretational strengths and weaknesses of the various measures. Finally, we give recommendation which measures are suitable for an evaluation of public health strategies against COVID-19. The R code to reproduce the results is available as online supplementary material. Conclusion: The number of excess deaths should be always reported together with the population attributable fraction, the p-score or the standardized mortality ratio instead of a per capita rate. For a complete picture of COVID-19 attributable mortality, quantifying and communicating its relative burden also to a lay audience is of major importance.
  
  
   
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2020

• Kammerlander, Andreas, Schulze, Günther G.
  Are Democracies Cleaner?
  2020 Eur J Polit Econ, volume: 64
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  We inquire whether democracies enjoy lower pollution levels than autocracies by investigating the ‘clean democracy hypothesis’, which posits that democracies have a more demand-determined policy formation leading to more stringent environmental policies. We test this hypothesis with a large data set covering 137 countries and the period 1970–2012 using eleven different air pollutants as endogenous variables and a wide range of control variables measuring democracy, development stage, globalization, and factor endowments. We find no consistent evidence that democracies are cleaner, not even the richer ones, which casts doubt on the validity of single pollutants studies. Numerous checks show the robustness of our results.

Other publications

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2024

• Bomprezzi, Pietro, Dreher, Axel, Fuchs, Andreas, Hailer, Teresa, Kammerlander, Andreas, Kaplan, Lennart C., Marchesi, Silvia, Masi, Tania, Robert, Charlotte, Unfried, Kerstin
  Wedded to Prosperity? Informal Influence and Regional Favoritism
  CESifo Working Paper, issue: 10969, 2024

2022

• Kammerlander, Andreas
  Economic Growth and Pollution in different Political Regimes
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 43, 2022

2020

• Kammerlander, Andreas, Schulze, Günther G.
  Political-Economic Correlates of Environmental Policy
  IEP Discussion Paper Series, University of Freiburg, issue: 39, 2020