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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An evaluation of air quality, home heating and well-being under Beijing’s programme to eliminate household coal use
Christopher Barrington-Leigh,Jill Baumgartner,Ellison Carter,Brian E. Robinson,Shu Tao,Yuanxun Zhang +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of subsidies on household energy use and expenditure, well-being and indoor environmental quality by comparing treated and untreated villages in three districts that vary in socioeconomic conditions, and found that households in high and middle-income districts eliminated coal use with benefits to indoor temperature, indoor air pollution and life satisfaction.
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Cost of economic growth: Air pollution and health expenditure
Fanglin Chen,Zhongfei Chen +1 more
TL;DR: The evidence suggests that air pollution nonlinearly affects health expenditure and that males, high-income individuals, highly educated individuals, people with health insurance, and older people are more sensitive to air pollution.
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Does air pollution affect public health and health inequality? Empirical evidence from China
Tingru Yang,Wenling Liu +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical linear regression model is used to analyze the effects of environmental pollution on the health of residents and explore the inherent mechanisms through which environmental and economic factors contribute to increases in health inequality.
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Monitoring particulate matter in India: recent trends and future outlook
Pallavi Pant,Raj M. Lal,Sarath K. Guttikunda,Armistead G. Russell,Ajay Singh Nagpure,Anu Ramaswami,Richard E. Peltier +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, a summary of the regulatory monitoring landscape in India, and including a discussion on measurement methods and other available government data on air pollution is presented, and the authors conclude that, less than 1% of all PM10 measurements (11 out of 4789) were found to meet the annual average WHO Air Quality Guideline (20μg/m3).
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A review of air pollution impact on subjective well-being: Survey versus visual psychophysics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed using psychophysics application to quantify air pollution impact on subjective well-being (SWB) and found that it is very hard to find the detailed trend impact from only air pollution factor on SWB.
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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.