| dc.creator |
Welsch, Heinz |
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| dc.date |
2003 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T06:58:20Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T06:58:20Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18116 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:378389300 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18116 |
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| dc.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. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
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| dc.relation |
DIW-Diskussionspapiere 356 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
Q2 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
pollution |
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| dc.subject |
environmental valuation |
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| dc.subject |
subjective well-being |
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| dc.subject |
marginal rate of substitution |
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| dc.subject |
Luftverunreinigung |
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| dc.subject |
Luftreinhaltung |
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| dc.subject |
Lebensstandard |
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| dc.subject |
Lebensqualitaet |
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| dc.subject |
Schaetzung |
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| dc.subject |
Westeuropa |
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| dc.subject |
Lebenszufriedenheit |
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| dc.title |
Environment and Happiness : Valuation of Air Pollution in Ten European Countries |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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| dc.coverage |
1990-1997 |
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