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Local environmental quality and life-satisfaction in Germany
Katrin Rehdanz,David Maddison +1 more
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In this paper, the authors proposed a different approach to derive information on individual preferences for local environmental quality by analyzing data drawn from the German socioeconomic panel in an attempt to explain differences in self-reported levels of well-being in terms of environmental quality.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2008-02-01. It has received 295 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Noise pollution & Air quality index.read more
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CO2 emissions, electricity consumption and output in ASEAN
Hooi Hooi Lean,Russell Smyth +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, electricity consumption and economic growth within a panel vector error correction model for five ASEAN countries over the period 1980-2006 was examined.
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Happiness is greater in natural environments
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.
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Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being?
Xin Zhang,Xiaobo Zhang,Xi Chen +2 more
TL;DR: 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.
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Valuing public goods using happiness data: The case of air quality☆
TL;DR: In this paper, a method for valuing a time-varying local public good, namely air quality, is described and implemented, and the average marginal rate of substitution between income and current air quality is derived for short-term changes in air pollution.
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Precisely incorrect? Monetising the value of ecosystem services §
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a systematic overview of the most relevant valuation methods, illustrates them by providing examples and discusses their limitations, and suggest an alternative, political target setting is suggested, based on a multi-stakeholder, multi-criteria analysis.
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Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of hedonic prices is formulated as a problem in the economics of spatial equilibrium in which the entire set of implicit prices guides both consumer and producer locational decisions in characteristics space.
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Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life
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Income and Happiness: Towards a Unified Theory
TL;DR: For example, this article found that people think they were less happy in the past and will be happier in the future, because they project current aspirations to be the same throughout the life cycle while income grows.
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Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a formal normative theory of the total experienced utility of temporally extended outcomes, which can be reported in real time (instant utility), or in retrospective evaluations of past episodes (remembered utility).