We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well‐being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down...

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on environmental concerns and wellâ€being in Germany and other industrialized countries, more than 5,000 miles distant. While we do not find evidence that subjective wellâ€being was significantly affected — not in Germany, Switzerland,...

Happiness economics has become an established field of research, and happiness and life satisfaction are increasingly considered important policy goals by governments around the globe. The Japanese government has recently started to follow this trend by regularly collecting data on personal...

Re3 publishes the interviews with the winners of the FEEM 2014 Award, which periodically rewards new ideas and innovative research in economics by young scholars. The interviews span a wide variety of topics, from the case of Fukushima to labour market reforms and whether financial incentives...