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Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe
Ferreira, Susana - 2012
SO2 concentrations on self-reported life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103468
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Two-Way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research : Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation
Headey, Bruce - 2014
Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews …, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life satisfaction could equally well be consequences, or …). These variables include one's state of health, social support and participation, exercise, job satisfaction and satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042982
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed - 2014
implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066339
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Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data : The Case of China
Zhang, Xin - 2016
This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data according to exact dates and locations of interviews in China, we are able to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987669
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The Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution on Subjective Well-Being in China
Zhang, Xin - 2019
satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … increases the rate of depressive symptoms, but does not affect life satisfaction. Our results show that the benefits of reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870167
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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance : A Panel Data Study
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2018
We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms' performance. Firms that received support are matched with a control group of firms that did not receive support using a combination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915338
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How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?
Bjerk, David - 2009
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155604
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian - 2013
-Economic Panel (SOEP). Our findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better cognitive skills and school grades and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074170
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The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving : Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care
McDonald, Rebecca - 2018
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.K., we address two challenging methodological issues related to the economic valuation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918258
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income : Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy - 2009
questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155599