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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How air pollution affects consumers' local brand choices: explanation from attribution and compensation tendency
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore how consumers' local brand choices differ between air-polluted days and clean days, and why the difference occurs, and they find that consumers show less tendency of attribution and compensatory consumption during air polluted days, which in turn decrease their willingness to choose local brands.
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Do social contacts improve the mental health of middle-aged and older adults in China?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how social contacts affect middle-aged and older adults' mental health, happiness, depression, and loneliness in China and found that social relations lead to an improvement of mental health and happiness and relief of depression and loneliness.
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Alive but not well: The neglected cost of air pollution.
Mengna Luan,Zhigang Tao +1 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the impact of air pollution on volume and intensity of hospitalizations, which allows them to incorporate the welfare loss and the wage loss, and they found that worse air quality causes more hospital admissions, more total inpatient days, and higher inpatient expenditure for various diseases, particularly diseases of the respiratory and circulatory systems.
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Impact of air quality on students’ behavior in the Educational Centers
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of air quality on the well-being of students at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran were explored. But the authors focused on the effect of indoor and outdoor air pollution on students.
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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
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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.