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...

Die Lebensqualität in der Stadt Zürich ist aussergewöhnlich hoch. Dementsprechend begehrt und teuer sind die Wohnungen. Doch welche Eigenschaften einer Wohnung sind für den Mietpreis entscheidend? Sind Genossenschaftswohnungen wirklich günstiger? Welchen Einfluss hat der Ausbaustandard, wie...

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems of monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective and subjective information and attempt to cover a wide variety of topics. This paper introduces a simple method that takes advantage of both types...