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Johannes Brehm
@johannesbrehm.bsky.social
Economist @ RWI | PhD Candidate @ Hertie School | Investigating climate policies and societal attitudes towards climate change

https://sites.google.com/view/johannesbrehm/home
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Ein 350 Millionen schweres Steuergeschenk für die Luftverkehrsindustrie raushauen, das Bahnfahrende mit der Verteuerung des Deutschlandtickets querfinanzieren. Chapeau: Das ist Robin Hood rückwärts bei gleichzeitiger Klimazerstörung.
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek.

See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here
👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
September 1, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The authors investigate Sweden’s carbon tax and VAT reform, finding it significantly increased low-carbon patents in the transport sector.

The results indicate that carbon pricing – not general fuel price changes – primarily drives the innovation response.
August 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Driving innovation? Carbon tax effects in the Swedish transport sector"

By Nils aus dem Moore, @johannesbrehm.bsky.social, & Henri Gruhl

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#econsky #publiceconomics
August 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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🚨Climate politics job alert🚨

Interested in the opportunity to focus on your own climate politics research project for 1 year in a stimulating and supportive environment at a leading university in Berlin?

Open to postdocs & graduates.

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...
Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Climate Politics (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)
hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com
June 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Psychological reactance to system-level policies (e.g., climate policy) is greater during the planning phase than after their implementation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Psychological reactance to system-level policies before and after their implementation | PNAS
Governments need to develop and implement effective policies to address pressing societal problems of our time, such as climate change and global p...
www.pnas.org
May 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New PhD chapter published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (open access)!

We find that long-term improvements in air quality due to the introduction of Low Emission Zones (LEZs) positively influence children's academic performance.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From Low Emission Zone to academic track: Environmental policy effects on educational achievement in elementary school
Do long-term improvements in air quality influence children’s educational outcomes? This paper investigates the impact of Low Emission Zones (LEZs), w…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Application of anticipatory design principles while constructing climate policy mixes, combined with reflexive assessment and recalibration can help mitigate risks of political backlashs.
By @chflachsland.bsky.social, @johannesbrehm.bsky.social and others.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anticipatory climate policy mix pathways: a framework for ex-ante construction and assessment applied to the road transport sector
Globally, climate policy implementation is failing to deliver on the ambitions outlined in the Paris Agreement and countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions. We argue that a more strategic and...
www.tandfonline.com
March 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Thrilled to see “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint review with U.Kornek, J.Meya & L.Sager

Environmental loss & economic inequality are two key challenges of our time, but how do both relate & interact?
December 11, 2024 at 2:50 PM
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Umweltzonen verbessern nicht nur die Luftqualität, sondern wirken sich auch positiv auf die mentale Gesundheit und den Bildungserfolg der Anwohner*innen aus. Dieser Zusammenhang wurde erstmals in einer von DIW-Forscherin Laura Schmitz mitverfassten Studie belegt: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... (1/4)
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Verringert sich die Luftverschmutzung, verbessert sich die mentale Gesundheit & der Schulerfolg der Anwohner/innen, zeigen Studienergebnisse der RWI-Wissenschaftler @johannesbrehm.bsky.social, Henri Gruhl, Robin Kottmann & von @diw.de-Wissenschaftlerin Laura Schmitz. Mehr dazu 👇
diw.de DIW Berlin @diw.de · Nov 20
Umweltzonen verbessern nicht nur die Luftqualität, sondern wirken sich auch positiv auf die mentale Gesundheit und den Bildungserfolg der Anwohner*innen aus. Dieser Zusammenhang wurde erstmals in einer von DIW-Forscherin Laura Schmitz mitverfassten Studie belegt: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... (1/4)
November 20, 2024 at 10:36 AM
🚦Verkehrswende: Umweltzonen können Ungleichheit bei psychischer Gesundheit und Bildung reduzieren
November 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Important new empirical paper by @johannesbrehm.bsky.social: Climate strikes and civil disobedience have led to an increase in concerns about climate change in Germany. #ClimateSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increase in concerns about climate change following climate strikes and civil disobedience in Germany - Nature Communications
Climate movements aim to raise public awareness of climate change through protests, but their efficacy is debated. Here, the authors show that concerns about climate change increased in Germany after ...
www.nature.com
April 9, 2024 at 7:36 AM
First paper out of my PhD published in Nature Communications!

Henri Gruhl and I find that different types of climate protests (climate strikes & acts of civil disobedience) have been effective in increasing concerns about climate change in Germany.
Increase in concerns about climate change following climate strikes and civil disobedience in Germany - Nature Communications
Climate movements aim to raise public awareness of climate change through protests, but their efficacy is debated. Here, the authors show that concerns about climate change increased in Germany after ...
www.nature.com
April 5, 2024 at 1:10 PM
hello blueskiers 👋
For those who just joined, I think it's a great idea to post something instead of leaving your wall blank.

Much easier for us to judge your entire personality and work based on one post instead of none.
October 3, 2023 at 8:00 PM