Most industrialized countries will experience a significant aging of their populations in the future. The consequences of this coming population aging for environmental preferences and environmental quality are ambiguous. This paper uses data on life satisfaction to investigate how preferences...

This paper investigates the relationship between emissions of carbon dioxide and the ongoing process of demographic transition in OECD countries. Our research is motivated by suggestions in the literature that emission-relevant consumption patterns may depend on the position in the life cycle...

By using data on self-rated life satisfaction as an empirical indicator of well-being, this paper estimates the valuation of two major air pollutants differentiated by people’s age category (stage in the life cycle) and birth cohort. Life satisfaction regressions involving about 59,000...

Dieses Buch richtet sich vor allem an sozialwissenschaftlich orientierte Nachhaltigkeitsforscher, an Fachleute aus Wirtschaft, Verwaltung und Politik sowie an all diejenigen, die sich für die gesellschaftlichen Folgen des demografischen Wandels interessieren. Der Autor untersucht, welchen...