George MacKerron

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between momentary subjective wellbeing (SWB) and individuals' immediate environment within the UK was explored, finding that on average, participants are significantly happier outdoors in all green or natural habitat types than they are in urban environments.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that perceived and measured air pollution levels are significantly negatively associated with the LS of the survey respondents, even when controlling for a wide range of other effects.

TL;DR: The economics of happiness is an expanding field, with a growing number of applied papers reporting empirical associations between happiness and other variables as discussed by the authors, and a broad view of the topic, aiming to provide an outline of the literature in relation to happiness economics' origins, definitions, theory, methods, applications, critiques, relations with other areas of economic research, political and policy connections and promising directions for future inquiry.

TL;DR: In this article, a stated preference study was conducted to estimate consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for carbon offsets with varying attributes, with or without specific co-benefits, in an aviation context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the links between individuals' wellbeing measured momentarily at random points in time and their experiences of paid work and quantify the effects of working on individuals' affect relative to other activities they perform, finding that paid work is ranked lower than any of the other 39 activities individuals engage in, with the exception of being sick in bed.