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On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation
Moro, Mirko; Ferreira, Susana - Department of Economics, University of Stirling - 2009
This paper explores the potential of using subjective well-being (SWB) data to value environmental attributes. A theoretical framework compares this method, also known as the lifesatisfaction approach, with the standard hedonic pricing approach, identifying their similarities and differences. As...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495527
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox
Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136466
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox
Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032820
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox
Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
level of both life satisfaction and happiness than Australia. Our findings accord with numerous cross-national surveys …In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566588
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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Wolff, Hendrik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...
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Functional Kriging Prediction of Pollution Series: The Geostatistical Alternative for Spatially-fixed Data/Predicción de series de contaminación mediante kriging funcional. La alte...
MONTERO, JOSÉ-MARÍA; FERNÁNDEZ-AVILÉS, GEMA - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 33 (2015) Enero, pp. 145-179
Proper assessment of air quality is of paramount importance. Accordingly, authorities in large cities have established air pollution monitoring networks that register levels of the most dangerous pollutants in a number of city locations on an hourly basis. Thus, the dataset including such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115598
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What is sustainable air quality?
Longley, Ian; Olivares, Gustavo - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 235-245
For 40 years or more, air quality policy has been based on the paradigm of the air quality standard as a uniform criterion of acceptable environmental degradation, built on the foundations of the precautionary principle. However, developments in health science have undermined some of the...
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Environmental Quality and Life Satisfaction: Evidence Based on Micro-Data
Silva, Jérôme; Keulenaer, Femke de; Johnstone, Nick - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2012
Environmental conditions are likely to have an effect on people’s sense of life satisfaction, both directly and … paper, the effects of individual and contextual factors on satisfaction with environmental quality and life satisfaction are … satisfaction, with the magnitude being approximately half that of self-reported health status.<BR>Les conditions environnementales …
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Subjective Well-Being and Air Quality in Germany
Schmitt, Maike - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This paper analyses the relation between air quality and subjective well-being in Germany. Life Satisfaction (LS) data …), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) from 1998 to 2008. The assumed microeconometric happiness function is estimated … considering individual time invariant effects. It is observed that O3 has a significant negative impact on life satisfaction. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185787
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Kyrgyz Republic; Medium-Term Development Program: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
This paper focuses on the Medium-Term Development Program for the Kyrgyz Republic. The aim of this program is to put the economy of the country into a sustainable vector of development and improve the budget status to prevent social effects, increase living standard, and reduce poverty in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244609