Publications

London Congestion Charge: The Impact on Air Pollution and School Attendance by Socioeconomic Status

We inquire how more stringent traffic regulations implemented in Central London from late 2015 affected pollution levels and school …
Risto Conte Keivabu, Tobias Rüttenauer (2022).  Population and Environment, 43: 576–596.
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The Effects of Non-pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 Mortality: A Generalized Synthetic Control Approach Across 169 Countries

We analyse data on daily confirmed COVID-19-related deaths per capita and apply the generalized synthetic control (GSC) method to …
Sebastian Mader, Tobias Rüttenauer (2022).  Frontiers in Public Health, 10:820642: 1-8.
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Perceived Pollution and Selective Out-Migration: Revisiting the Role of Income for Environmental Inequality

We test if the subjective impairment through air pollution selectively affects the probability of out-migration according to income and …
Tobias Rüttenauer, Henning Best (2022).  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(15): 3505-3523.
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Muster ethnischer Segregation in Deutschland – Ein Vergleich anhand räumlicher Segregationsmaße

Basierend auf räumlichen Segregationsmaßen gibt dieser Beitrag einen vergleichenden Überblick über die räumliche Segregation und deren …
Tobias Rüttenauer (2022).  In H. Kruse, J. Teltemann (Eds.) Differenz im Raum. Sozialstruktur und Grenzziehungen in deutschen Städten. Wiesbaden: Springer VS..
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The Effect of Mandatory COVID-19 Certificates on Vaccine Uptake: Synthetic-Control Modelling of Six Countries

We investigate the effect of COVID certificates on vaccination uptake based on data from Denmark, Israel, Italy, France, Germany, and …
Melinda Mills, Tobias Rüttenauer (2022).  The Lancet Public Health, 7(1): e15-e22.
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Spatial Regression Models: A Systematic Comparison of Different Model Specifications Using Monte Carlo Experiments

This study summarizes the most commonly used spatial regression models and offers a comparison of their performance by using Monte …
Tobias Rüttenauer (2022).  Sociological Methods & Research, 51(2): 728-759.
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Environmental Inequality and Residential Sorting in Germany: A Spatial Time-Series Analysis of the Demographic Consequences of Industrial Sites

Building on an original dataset including georeferenced data of 6,570 highly polluting industrial facilities over the period from 2008 …
Tobias Rüttenauer, Henning Best (2021).  Demography, 58 (6): 2243–2263.
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Consistent Inequality across Germany? Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity in the Unequal Distribution of Air Pollution

We connect the 2011 German census to different sources of pollution estimates and use geographically weighted regressions to …
Tobias Rüttenauer, Henning Best (2021).  In A. Franzen, S. Mader (Eds.) Research Handbook on Environmental Sociology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 41–61.
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Fixed Effects Individual Slopes: Accounting and Testing for Heterogeneous Effects in Panel Data or Other Multilevel Models

This study shows how heterogeneous slopes or trends can bias conventional FE estimators, and demonstrates how Fixed Effects Individual …
Tobias Rüttenauer, Volker Ludwig (2020).  Sociological Methods & Research, OnlineFirst.
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Bringing Urban Space Back in: A Multilevel Analysis of Environmental Inequality in Germany

This study uses an original dataset by combining the German 2011 census with georeferenced pollution data to analyse the variation in …
Tobias Rüttenauer (2019).  Urban Studies, 56(12).
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Neighbours Matter: A Nation-Wide Small-Area Assessment of Environmental Inequality in Germany

This study investigates the presence of environmental inequality in Germany and analyses its spatial pattern on a very fine grained …
Tobias Rüttenauer (2018).  Social Science Research, 70.
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How Selective Migration Shapes Environmental Inequality in Germany: Evidence from Micro-level Panel Data

The study uses longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the process of selective migration and its …
Henning Best, Tobias Rüttenauer (2018).  European Sociological Review, 1(34).
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