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This paper deals with the effect of (i) damage experience from extreme weather events and (ii) expectations concerning future climate change on subjective wellbeing (SWB). We use data of a large representative survey amongst German households. The effect of experienced weather events on SWB of...
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world is moving towards the point at which irreversible ecological catastrophe becomes unavoidable. Business … impacts, but that window is closing: the world has less than a decade to change course. Actions taken — or not taken — in the … years ahead will have a profound bearing on the future course of human development. The world lacks neither the financial …
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This year's Human Development Report explains why we have less than a decade to change course and start living within our global carbon budget, and how climate change will create long-run low human development traps, pushing vulnerable people into a downward spiral of deprivation.
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, rainfall, temperature anomaly) relate to financial evaluators (current/expected finances, job/income satisfaction), mental and … physical health (mental distress, life/health satisfaction). Matching individual-level data from the British Household and the …
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Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from developing countries exist. Moreover, even though climate is among the most important input to human activities, only a handfull of studies explicitly associate it with...
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We investigate the impact of short-term weather and long-term climate on self-reported life satisfaction using panel … data. We find robust evidence that day-to-day weather variation impacts life satisfaction by a similar magnitude to … acquiring a mild disability. Utilizing two sources of variation in the cognitive complexity of satisfaction questions, we …
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