Environmental protection and happiness: A long-run relationship in Europe

Bonasia, Mariangela; Simone, Elina De; D’Uva, Marcella; Napolitano, Oreste

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2021.106704

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“…Findings also infer that environmental rule has simulated happiness and health by mitigating environmental pollution. A similar finding is also reported by Bonasia et al ( 32 ) for Europe.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 92%

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Rule of Law, Happiness, and Human Health: Mechanisms and Effects

Tao

Zafar

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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Human health is an important concern that gradually exists in sustainable development goals. The key aim of this study is to examine the impacts of the rule of law on happiness and health using a time series data of China over the data period 1998–2020. The empirical analysis utilizes the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method to find out the short and long-run effects. Findings reveal that the rule of law stimulates happiness and human health in the long-run. More internet and GDP enhance happiness and human health in the long-run. The results also showed that health expenditure and education could not boost happiness and health in the long run, but unemployment's negative effect on health. Policymakers may use our empirical results to determine applicable policies to increase human health across China provinces.

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 92%

“…A similar finding is also reported by Bonasia et al (32) for Europe. As displayed by statistically insignificant coefficient estimates, education reports no significant impact on happiness level and human health.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 91%

Rule of Law, Happiness, and Human Health: Mechanisms and Effects

Tao

Zafar

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…ε i,t is the error term. According to Bonasia et al (2022) and Xu et al (2022), coal consumption, government medical expenditure, government educational expenditure, education construction, population, SO 2 emission, urban environment infrastructure, unemployment rate, divorce rate, gross domestic product, proportion of urban population, birth rate, and death rate are selected as control variables.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The relationship between happiness and the environment has received increased research attention in recent years (Krekel and MacKerron, 2020;Maddison et al, 2020;Bonasia et al, 2022). Traditional economic indicators of wellbeing are poor predictors of happiness.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, public support serves to provide environmental protection and pollution reduction, which can be considered wellbeing attributes because they influence individuals' and communities' ability to achieve healthy environmental goals. Empirically, Bonasia et al (2022) examine micro and macro data from 19 European countries from 1997 to 2019 and discover a direct link between happiness and long-term environmental protection spending in European countries. They advocate for governments to include environmental spending as a means of increasing domestic happiness, emphasizing the importance of the interaction between environmental quality and life satisfaction.…”

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Can ESG investments and new environmental law improve social happiness in China?

Hamori

Tian

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Air pollution was a serious issue in China in the early 2010s, threatening public health and sustainable economic development. The Chinese government established a new environmental protection law in 2015 in order to address air pollution and other environmental issues. This paper investigates the impact of the new environmental law and ESG investments on air pollution and social happiness. We discovered that the implementation of the new environmental law and ESG investments significantly improved social happiness by reducing air pollution. One unit increase in ESG investments would result in a 0.334 unit decrease in air pollution and 0.225 unit increase in social happiness.

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