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 …

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health … increases monotonically and progressively with age. Our results are similar for alternative measures of SWB (life satisfaction …

This empirical investigation into life satisfaction, using nationally representative German panel data, finds a … standard life satisfaction models. The thoughts that individuals have about the future contribute substantially to their … current life satisfaction. In particular, the reduction in life satisfaction experienced by individuals who report being …

.5 pollution could be mixed. While adverse health effects of PM2.5 pollution can lead to reduced labor supply, workers can rather …We empirically examine how fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution affects labor supply in Japan. The effects of PM2 … supply in a country with moderate levels of pollution. We use a monthly panel dataset covering entire Japan in 2013–2017 and …

Excessive nighttime light is known to have detrimental effects on health and on the environment (fauna and flora). The … paper investigates the link between nighttime light pollution and economic growth, air pollution, and urban density. We …-level counties. This has implications for policies that have been proposed to curtail nighttime light pollution. …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children’s health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child’s health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …

importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an … important factor for life satisfaction and that maximal life satisfaction is associated with about eight hours of sleep on a … lead to a higher reported satisfaction with life. …