Subjective Wellbeing: Why Weather Matters

Feddersen, John; Metcalfe, Robert; Wooden, Mark

doi:10.1111/rssa.12118

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“…Recent data from the Global Health Observatory (GHO) show that air pollution contributes to 6.7% of deaths around the globe (WHO 2012). Earlier research has emphasised on the importance of exposure to green and blue space (Pretty et al 2005;Takayama et al 2014), climate and biodiversity (Fuller et al 2007;Dallimer et al 2012;Feddersen et al 2016) and air quality (Welsch 2006;Luechinger 2009; Giovanis and Ozdamar 2016b; Ozdamar and Giovanis 2017) for the well-being.…”

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Worthy to lose some money for better air quality: applications of Bayesian networks on the causal effect of income and air pollution on life satisfaction in Switzerland

Giovanis

2018

Empir Econ

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One important determinant of well-being is the environmental quality. Many countries apply environmental regulations, reforms and policies for its improvement. However, the question is how the people value the environment, including the air quality. This study examines the association between air pollution and life satisfaction using the Swiss Household Panel survey over the years 2000-2013. We follow a Bayesian network (BN) strategy to estimate the causal effect of the income and air pollution on life satisfaction. We look at five main air pollutants: the ground-level ozone (O 3), sulphur dioxide (SO 2), nitrogen dioxide (NO 2), carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter of 10 micrometres (PM 10). Then, we calculate the individuals' marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) of reducing air pollution that aims to improve their life satisfaction. Beside the BN model, we take advantage of the panel structure of our data and we follow two approaches as robustness check. This includes the adapted probit fixed effects and the generalised methods of moments system. Our findings show that O 3 and PM 10 present the highest MWTP values ranging between $8000 and $12,000, followed by the remained air pollutants with MWTP extending between $2000 and $6500. Applying the BNs, we find that the causal effect of income on life satisfaction is substantially increased. We also show the causal effects of air pollutants remain almost the same, leading to lower values of willingness to pay.

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Worthy to lose some money for better air quality: applications of Bayesian networks on the causal effect of income and air pollution on life satisfaction in Switzerland

Giovanis

2018

Empir Econ

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“…Moreover, given that we have daily data, we also control for weather-related factors, which could exert an instantaneous effect on subjective well-being and thus explain differences in responses between cities (Feddersen et al, 2016). We obtained data on daily precipitation (in inches) and daily maximum temperature (in Fahrenheit) from the National Center for Environmental Information of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.…”

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Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data

Dolan

Kavetsos

Krekel

et al. 2019

Journal of Public Economics

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Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi-experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show that hosting the Olympics increases subjective well-being of the host city's residents during the event, particularly around the times of the opening and closing ceremonies. However, we do not find much evidence for legacy effects. Estimating residents' implicit willingness-to-pay for the event, we do not find that it was worth it for London alone, but a modest wellbeing impact on the rest of the country would make hosting worth the costs.

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“…The pattern is less clear for the month of September, where in the year 2005 wellbeing appears to continue an upward trend. This may be an effect attributable to the ban, but also to time-varying factors, such as weather conditions, which have been shown to have a significant impact on measures of life-satisfaction (see Feddersen et al [2016] for an example). For this reason, we will perform some checks to ensure that our results are robust to the introduction of weather conditions.…”

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Smoking behaviour and individual well-being: a fresh look at the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy

Bono

Vuri

2017

Oxford Economic Papers

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This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy in January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population. Our analysis shows that the apparent success of the ban is due to the fact that existing results do not take into account seasonal differences in smoking behaviour. Using quarterly data from the 1999/2000 and 2004/2005 Italian Health Surveys and adopting a difference-indifference approach that nets out monthly variation in smoking rates, we show that the Italian smoking ban had no impact on smoking behaviour for the population as a whole but only on some subgroups. This result notwithstanding, we find that the smoking ban increased the overall well-being of non-smokers.

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Subjective Wellbeing: Why Weather Matters

Cited by 44 publications

References 39 publications

Worthy to lose some money for better air quality: applications of Bayesian networks on the causal effect of income and air pollution on life satisfaction in Switzerland

Worthy to lose some money for better air quality: applications of Bayesian networks on the causal effect of income and air pollution on life satisfaction in Switzerland

Quantifying the intangible impact of the Olympics using subjective well-being data

Smoking behaviour and individual well-being: a fresh look at the effects of the 2005 public smoking ban in Italy

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