Forschungsseminar
Wednesday Faculty Research Seminar
Organizers
Mathilde Dräger, Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad
Time and Room
(exceptions will be noted below)
Location: Campus, building 22, room A-225 (Fakultätszentrum)
Further information
Tel.:+49 (0)391/ 67 58796
Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad (omar.fieles-ahmad@ovgu.de)
Tel.: +49 (0)391 / 67-58954
Date | Speaker/Author | Title | |
We. 09/04/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad |
I Got 99 Problems and a Birch is One: Seasonal Allergies and Road Safety in the UK This paper investigates the impact of airborne pollen on serious and fatal traffic accidents in the UK. Using daily county-level data from UK Met Office reporting sites spanning 2013–2023, I find that higher pollen concentrations cause an increase in severe traffic accidents. The effect seems to be driven by tree pollen in particular. The results are robust to a range of weather and air pollution controls and are further validated using simulated pollen data from Ambee (2016–2022). These findings underscore the role of seasonal health-related factors in shaping road safety outcomes. Additionally, I explore the use of thermal inversion as an instrumental variable for pollen exposure and raise serious concerns about the validity of the exogeneity assumption in this context, with implications for its application in air pollution research. |
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We. 16/04/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Carina Keldenich | tba | |
We. 23/04/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Dr. Ulugbek Aminjonov (University of Bordeaux)Inviting person: Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad |
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We. 30/04/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Kim Siegling , (Kai Heinrich, Sabrina Jeworrek) |
Removing the human in human resource: The adverse effect of AI use in the recruitment process | |
We. 14/05/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Hang Nguyen | tba | |
We. 21/05/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Felix Holub (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)Inviting person: Omar Martin Fieles-Ahmad |
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We. 28/05/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Jannik Greif | tba | |
We. 11/06/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
cancelled | ||
We. 18/06/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Dmitri Bershadskyy | tba | |
We. 02/07/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Miguel Abellán-OssenbachInviting person: Mathilde Dräger |
tba | |
We. 09/07/25 1:00 pm Fakultätszentrum |
Mathilde Dräger | tba |
Best Paper Award Winners
Summer 2024: Leonie Koch
Winter 2023: Jun.-Prof. Ph. D. Huyen Nguyen, M. Sc. Kim Siegling, M. Sc. Christopher Woddow