Working Papers
School Closures, Mortality, and Human Capital: Evidence from the Universe of Closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden (joint with Christian M. Dahl, Martin Karlsson, Casper Worm Hansen, Peter Sandholt Jensen) CEPR Working Paper 18399. Revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Abstract: We analyse the short- and long-run effects of primary school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden. Linking newly collected school closure data with the universe of death certificates and census records, we show that closures responded to local outbreaks. Focusing on closing parishes only in an event-study framework, we find that faster closures significantly reduced mortality, particularly among prime-age individuals. Our long-run difference-in-differences estimates reveal minimal, mostly insignificant effects on longevity, employment, and income. Our results suggest that short, well-timed school closures can save lives during a pandemic without imposing lasting economic or educational disadvantages on affected children.
Peer-reviewed published papers
17. Mathias Huebener, Jonas Jessen, Daniel Kuehnle, and Michael Oberfichtner. Parental Leave, Worker Substitutability, and Firm’s Employment. [pdf] The Economic Journal. Summary of our findings at the IZA Newsroom in English and German and at IAB-FORUM. Covered by Spiegel, FAZ, Stern, Rheinische Post https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae114
16. Jessen, J., Kuehnle, D. Wagner, M. Long-run effects of earlier voting eligibility on turnout and political involvement. Journal of Politics. DOI: 10.1086/729972 Summary JOP Blogpost. Twitter thread.
15. Kuehnle, D., Johnson, G., Tseng, Y.P. Making it home? Evidence on the long-run impact of an intensive support program for the chronically homeless. Journal of Urban Economics, 133: 103511. DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2022.103511.
Media: The Guardian.
14. Collischon, M., Kuehnle, D., Oberfichtner, M. Who benefits from cash-for-care? The effects of a home care subsidy on maternal employment, childcare choices, and children's development. Forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources. DOI: 10.3368/jhr.0720-11051R1
13. Karlsson , M., Kuehnle, D., Prodromidis, N. (2021). 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Economic History. Accepted for publication, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.682
12. Kuehnle D., Oberfichtner, M., Ostermann, K. (2021) Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households -- A cautionary tale on the potential pitfalls of density estimators. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1-9. [Link]
11. Kuehnle D., Oberfichtner, M. (2020). Does early child care attendance influence children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill development? Demography, 57(1): 61–98. [Link]
10. Kuehnle D. (2019). How effective are pictorial warnings on tobacco products? New evidence on smoking behaviour using Australian panel data. Journal of Health Economics, 67: 102215. [Link]
9. Huebener M., Kuehnle D., Spiess K. (2019). Paid Parental Leave and Child Development: Evidence from the 2007 German Parental Benefit Reform and Administrative Data. Labour Economics, 61: 101754. [Link]
8. Cygan-Rehm, K., Kuehnle, D., Riphahn, R. (2018). Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements. Labour Economics, 53: 182-197. [Link]
7. Kalb, G., Kuehnle, D., Cheng, T., Scott, T., Jeon, S. (2018). What factors affect doctors' hours decisions: Comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches. Health Economics. 27(2): e101-e119.
6. Cygan-Rehm K, Kuehnle D, Oberfichtner M . (2017). Bounding the causal effect of unemploymenton mental health: Nonparametric evidence from four countries. Health Economics. 26(12): 1844-1861.
5. Broadway, B., Kalb, G., Kuehnle, D. Maeder, M. (2017). Paid parental leave and child health in Australia. Economic Record. 93(301): 214-237.
4. Kuehnle D. and Wunder C. (2017). "The effects of smoking bans on self-assessed health: Evidence from Germany". Health Economics. 26(3): 321-337.
3. Kuehnle D. and Wunder C. (2016). "Using the life satisfaction approach to value daylight savings time transitions. Evidence from Britain and Germany". Journal of Happiness Studies. 17(6): 2293-2323.
2. Schurer, S., Kuehnle, D., Scott, A., Cheng, T. (2016). A man's blessing or a woman's curse? The Family-earnings gap of doctors. Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society. 55(3): 385-414
1. Kuehnle D. (2014). "The effect of family income on child health in the UK". Journal of Health Economics, 36:137-150.
Work in progress (selection)
Working Hours and Health (with Martin Karlsson and Nikolaos Prodromidis)
Optimising Long-Term Care Benefits (with Rebecca Leber and Matthias Westphal)
Substance abuse and health (with Alison Cuellar and Jannis Stöckel)
Externalities of large sporting events (with Rebecca Leber and Sabrina Lenzen)