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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Collaborative Strategies and Multiple Performances of Haze Pollution Control: A Case Study of Motor Vehicles
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper used a causal loop analysis and simulation analysis to find that an air pollution charging fee policy would have a double dividend effect, which could achieve the dual goals of congestion alleviation and emission reduction.
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Air pollution, human capital, and urban innovation in China
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How do environmental regulations influence resource misallocation in China? The role of investment flows
Xinze Li,Luojia Wang,Kerui Du +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the difference-in-differences method was employed to examine how environmental regulations affect resource misallocation in China, with resource reallocation being the driving force behind this improvement, while the emission reduction mandate reduces investment inflows and hinders firms' entry into regions with low total factor productivity, while directing the flow of resources to highly productive areas.
Using Network Literature to Improve Mood during Episodes of Air Pollution: An Empirical Study of Online Comments
Zongyue Xue,Yutao Gong +1 more
TL;DR: Based on the comments on Jinjiang Literature City, a large Chinese network literature website, Baidu online search index and air quality data in 323 Chinese prefecture-level cities from January 1, 2018 to January 20, 2020, this article revealed that the sentiment of comments improve significantly as air quality deteriorates, while reading behavior also increase significantly.
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The mental health of China and Pakistan, mental health laws and COVID-19 mental health policies: a comparative review
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors compared the mental health status of people in China and Pakistan and highlighted mental health laws and policies during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and concluded that mental health problems are greater in Pakistan than in China, and China's mental health policies are more robust and more widely implemented than those in Pakistan.
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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.