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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18116| Title: | Environment and Happiness : Valuation of Air Pollution in Ten European Countries |
| Keywords: | Q2 ddc:330 pollution environmental valuation subjective well-being marginal rate of substitution Luftverunreinigung Luftreinhaltung Lebensstandard Lebensqualitaet Schaetzung Westeuropa Lebenszufriedenheit |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions. This approach permits to show that citizens care about prosperity and the environment, and to calculate the trade-off people are willing to make between them. The paper finds that air pollution plays a statistically significant role as a predictor of intercountry and inter-temporal differences in subjective well-being. The effect of air pollution on well-being shows up as a considerable monetary valuation of improved air quality. The air quality improvements achieved in Western Europe in 1990-1997 are valued at almost $900 per capita per year in the case of nitrogen dioxide and more than $1400 per capita per year in the case of lead. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18116 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18116 ppn:378389300 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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