Impacts of Air Pollution on Chinese Expressions of Happiness on Social Media
Tang Zixuan,
Zhang Yichen,
Liu Juntong
et al.
Abstract:Many studies have demonstrated that air quality is an important factor affecting national well-being. Is there a relationship between air pollution and people’s happiness? To explore this, more than 40,000 haze-related tweets on the Chinese largest microblog platform SinaWeibo were collected. Using daily data for 6 Chinese cities from January 1 to February 12, 2023, we applied natural language processing (NLP) to analyze theWeibo tweets and construct a daily city-level expressed happiness metric. A fixed effec… Show more
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