adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of …This paper uses a panel of German individuals and highly granular pollution data to test if air pollution affects … sulfur dioxide. Concerning the mechanism, we find that above-median earners drive this effect and that ozone causes losses in …

individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …

pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health status, depressive symptoms, moment-to-moment happiness, and … life satisfaction has little to do with the immediate air quality. Our results shed light on air pollution as an important …Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to its potential effect on …

-in-differences designs, we show that previous estimates of the policy's impact on traffic-related air pollution significantly underestimate … ozone due to changes in the chemical balance with precursor contaminants. Policy effects are heterogeneous by season, with … greater decreases in traffic pollutants during winter and increases in ozone during spring and summer. Using individual …

Air pollution results in high economic costs arising from its negative impacts on human health, especially in urban … unintended adverse effects on secondary contaminants like ozone and on air pollution in adjacent areas. New evidence based on … analyses in this Weekly Report confirm that LEZs reduce traffic-related air pollution. However, the analyses also reveal …

This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching …, essentially a happiness-based measure of willingness-to-pay for mitigating air pollution. We find that people on average are …

satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … to air pollution across similar respondents living in the same county, we find that PM2.5 reduces hedonic happiness and … increases the rate of depressive symptoms, but does not affect life satisfaction. Our results show that the benefits of reducing …

Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition …, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on … the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from …

air pollution on life satisfaction. We look at five main air pollutants: the ground-level ozone (O3), sulphur dioxide (SO2 … quality. This study examines the association between air pollution and life satisfaction using the Swiss Household Panel … individuals' marginal willingness to pay (MWTP) of reducing air pollution that aims to improve their life satisfaction. Beside the …

satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … to air pollution across similar respondents living in the same county, we find that PM2.5 reduces hedonic happiness and … increases the rate of depressive symptoms, but does not affect life satisfaction. Our results show that the benefits of reducing …