Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being?
Xin Zhang,Xiaobo Zhang,Xi Chen +2 more
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It is shown that air pollution reduces hedonic happiness and increases the rate of depressive symptoms, while life satisfaction has little to do with the immediate air quality.About:
This article is published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 389 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Happiness & Subjective well-being.read more
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The Effect of Satisfaction with Environmental Performance on Subjective Well-Being in China: GDP as a Moderating Factor
Xinghua Zhao,Zongfeng Sun +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the effect of environmental performance on subjective well-being against the background of different levels of economic development in China and found that the public's satisfaction with environmental performance will significantly enhance their happiness.
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Are There Heterogeneous Impacts of National Income on Mental Health
Zimei Huang,Tinghui Li,Mark Xu +2 more
TL;DR: Rising national income is conducive to increase people’s happiness and reduce their prevalence of anxiety disorders, but it increases the prevalence of depression disorders, and the heterogeneous influence mechanism of national income on mental health is mainly reflected in different types of mental health.
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The negative effect of air pollution on people's pro-environmental behavior
TL;DR: This article found that when exposed to air pollution, people are less likely to purchase pro-environmental products, engage in recycling, participate in sustainable travel, donate to environmental organizations, and buy environmentally friendly products.
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Environmental Regulations, Political Incentives and Local Economic Activities: Evidence from China*
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between political incentives and the effects of environmental regulations and found that when a city's Party secretary has more incentives to be promoted, adverse impacts on production by regulated firms tend to increase, but these losses for regulated firms are compensated by gains for other unregulated firms in polluting industries.
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Impacts of pollution abatement projects on happiness: An exploratory study in China
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed relevant happiness data collected before and after China's South-to-North Water Diversion Eastern Route Pollution Control Project to test this idea.
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The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population
TL;DR: The CES-D scale as discussed by the authors is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population, which has been used in household interview surveys and in psychiatric settings.
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Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Some Empirical Evidence
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the association of income and happiness and suggest a Duesenberry-type model, involving relative status considerations as an important determinant of happiness.
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Will raising the incomes of all increase the happiness of all
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that the material norms on which judgments of well-being are based increase in the same proportion as the actual income of the society, and that raising the incomes of all does not increase the happiness of all.
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Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
TL;DR: It is made evident that the neuroscience of mental health-a term that encompasses studies extending from molecular events to psychological, behavioral, and societal phenomena-has emerged as one of the most exciting arenas of scientific activity and human inquiry.
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Relative Income, Happiness and Utility: An Explanation for the Easterlin Paradox and Other Puzzles
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the evidence on relative income from the subjective well-being literature and discuss the relation (or not) between happiness and utility, and discuss some nonhappiness research (behavioral, experimental, neurological) related to income comparisons.