the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from …, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on … includes self-reported happiness and mental well-being measures, with contemporaneous local air quality and weather information …

longitudinal evidence that a drop in life satisfaction tends to precede the use of illegal/street drugs. We also find that the … current levels of life satisfaction. This provides empirical support for the utility misprediction model. Further, we find … that the decrease in life satisfaction following the consumption of illegal/street drugs persists 6 months to a year after …

In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for …

household's monetary financial position on overall life satisfaction and financial well-being, with the latter being measured by … indicate that the household's level of net wealth, assets and debt are important determinants of overall life satisfaction and …This paper explores the importance of the household's financial position for an individual's level of well …

This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our … heterogeneous effect of victimisation along the whole distribution of well-being. Using fixed effects panel estimation, we find that …

satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … to air pollution across similar respondents living in the same county, we find that PM2.5 reduces hedonic happiness and … increases the rate of depressive symptoms, but does not affect life satisfaction. Our results show that the benefits of reducing …

hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data according to exact dates and locations of … happiness. By holding happiness constant, we calculate the tradeoff between the reduction in particulate matter and income …, essentially a happiness-based measure of willingness-to-pay for mitigating air pollution. We find that people on average are …