Climate and happiness

Rehdanz, Katrin; Maddison, David

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.06.015

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“…But there is evidence that weather significantly determines pollution levels as well as subjective well-being (Umweltbundesamt, 2009;Rhedanz and Maddison, 2005). Thus, weather is an omitted variable when it is excluded from the analysis of the impact of pollution on LS.…”

Section: Empirical Evidencementioning

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Subjective Well-Being and Air Quality in Germany

Schmitt¹

2013

Schmollers Jahrbuch

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This paper analyses the relation between air quality and subjective well-being in Germany. Life Satisfaction (LS) data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is connected with daily county pollution in terms of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) from 1998 to 2008. The assumed microeconometric happiness function is estimated considering individual time invariant effects. It is observed that O3 has a significant negative impact on life satisfaction. The estimated influence of current CO as well as NO2 is not significant. Moreover, I found that LS of people with environmental worries is more affected by ozone pollution. This was not the case for people with a bad health status. Using the marginal rate of substitution between income and air pollution, it is calculated that an increase of one µg/m 3 in daily average county O3 has to be compensated by an increase of e 11.33 in monthly net household income to hold an average individual's LS constant.

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Section: Empirical Evidencementioning

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Subjective Well-Being and Air Quality in Germany

Schmitt¹

2013

Schmollers Jahrbuch

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“…These requirements, however, are typically met in practice. 10 So far, the life satisfaction approach has been applied to a variety of contexts (see, for example, Welsch (2002Welsch ( , 2006Welsch ( , 2007, Rehdanz and Maddison (2008), Menz (2011), Ferreira et al (2013), or Ambrey et al (2014 for the context of air pollution; Israel and Levinson (2003) for the context of water pollution; Frijters and van Praag (1998), Rehdanz and Maddison (2005), and Maddison and Rehdanz (2011) Specifically, the studies which are most closely related to this study are van Praag and Baarsma (2005) and Rehdanz and Maddison (2008) for the context of noise pollution and Ambrey and Fleming (2011) and Kopmann and Rehdanz (2013) Kopmann and Rehdanz (2013) find that the willingness to pay for artificial land covers, such as minding, dumping, and construction sites, is negative.…”

Section: Life Satisfaction Approachmentioning

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Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

Krekel

Zerrahn

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science. Terms of use: Documents inThe decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. AbstractWe investigate the effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential wellbeing in Germany, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a unique novel panel data set on more than 20,000 wind turbines for the time period between 2000 and 2012. Using a Geographical Information System (GIS), we calculate the proximity between households and the nearest wind turbine as the most important determinant of their disamenities, e.g. visual interference into landscape aesthetics.Our unique novel panel data set on wind turbines, which was collected at the regional level, includes their exact geographical coordinates and construction dates. This allows estimating the causal effect of the physical presence of wind turbines on residential wellbeing, using a difference-in-differences design. To ensure comparability of the treatment and control group, we apply propensity-score and novel spatial matching techniques based on exogenous weather data and geographical locations of residence, respectively.We show that the construction of a wind turbine within a treatment radius of 4,000 m...

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“…Frey et al (2004) found that the willingness to pay (WTP) for a reduction of terrorism to rates that prevail in the more peaceful parts of each country is about 14% of annual household income in Paris, 32% in London, and around 41% in Belfast. Rehdanz and Maddison (2005a) analyzed the effect of climate on subjective well-being and found that "modest global warming with higher winter temperatures would increase people's happiness, particularly, for those living in the North.…”

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Valuing the Environment Using the Life-Satisfaction Approach

Ferreira¹,

Moro

Clinch

2006

SSRN Journal

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This paper presents a comprehensive theoretical and methodological framework clarifying the relationship between non-market environmental valuation techniques, in particular hedonic and life-satisfaction methods. The paper shows how life-satisfaction scores can be used to test correctly the equilibrium condition in location markets required by the hedonic approach and that in the absence of equilibrium, the life-satisfaction approach is still a theoretically valid valuation technique. Valuation using the life-satisfaction approach suffers from caveats associated with the cardinalisation of utility, however. Using data from Ireland, we apply this framework to the valuation of amenities linked to respondents' dwelling areas using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

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Climate and happiness

Cited by 371 publications

References 26 publications

Subjective Well-Being and Air Quality in Germany

Subjective Well-Being and Air Quality in Germany

Sowing the Wind and Reaping the Whirlwind? The Effect of Wind Turbines on Residential Well-Being

Valuing the Environment Using the Life-Satisfaction Approach

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