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Do Geographical Variations in Climate Influence Life Satisfaction?

Murray, Thomas; Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

pay for changes in climate is revealed using European data on reported life satisfaction. Individuals located in areas …

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The role of urban green space for human well-being

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

-being, but it is often in short supply. We use self-reported information on life satisfaction and different individual green … observe a significant, inverted U-shaped effect of the amount of and distance to urban green space on life satisfaction …

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Prenatal Testosterone Exposure Predicts Mindfulness – Does This Mediate Its Effect on Happiness?

Neyse, Levent; Ring, Patrick; Bosworth, Steven - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

exposure have the highest MAAS scores. We additionally elicit participants’ self-reported general life satisfaction and current … happiness levels as well as their estimates about others’ general life satisfaction. We find that MAAS strongly predicts … absolute and relative life satisfaction and also current happiness levels, but digit ratios do not mediate the relationship …

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The Impact of Climate on Life Satisfaction

Maddison, David; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We analyse the influence of climate on average life satisfaction in 87 countries using data from the World Values … significantly lower levels of life satisfaction. This finding is robust to a wide variety of model specifications. Using our results …

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Religiosity and Personal Well-Being: People Can Be Happy With or Without Religion

Opfinger, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

use information from the World Values Survey about subjective happiness and life satisfaction. We relate this information …

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Citizen-Centric Governance Indicators: Measuring and Monitoring Governance by Listening to the People and Not the Interest Groups

Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance and...

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Consumer’s Willingness to Pay for Green Electricity: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature

Sundt, Swantje; Rehdanz, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

The number of studies published focusing on people’s preferences for green electricity has increased steadily, making it more and more difficult to identify key explanatory factors that determine people’s willingness-to-pay (WTP). Based on results of a meta-regression our results indicate...

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Well-being effects of a major negative externality: The case of Fukushima

Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz; Narita, Daiju; Okubo, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Following a major earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan, a tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three reactors in Fukushima, causing a major nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. Based on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach we use panel data for 5,979 individuals...

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Validity of WTP Measures under Preference Uncertainty

Kniebes, Carola; Rehdanz, Katrin; Schmidt, Ulrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper establishes a new method for eliciting Willingness to Pay (WTP) in contingent valuation (CV) studies with an open-ended elicitation format: the Range-WTP method. In contrast to the traditional approach for eliciting Point-WTP, Range-WTP explicitly allows for preference uncertainty in...

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On the Relation between Dual-Rate Discounting and Substitutability

Kögel, Tomas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

To justify substantial emission reductions, recent literature on cost-benefit analysis of climate change suggests discounting environment consumption with an environmental discount rate instead of a consumption discount rate that is usually used in cost-benefit analysis. The present study...

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