"By exploiting two very large samples of US subjective well-being data we are able to obtain comparable estimates of the monetary and other costs of unemployment on the unemployed themselves, while simultaneously estimating the effects of local employment on the subjective well-being of the rest...

Aim of this study was to assess the annual social cost of air pollution impact on health of Warsaw population. The study consisted of three main parts, i.e. the determination of Warsaw citizens’ exposure to air pollution, the quantification of the health effect as a result of this exposure and...

Rationale: epidemiological studies suggest that air pollution causes a small loss in life expectancy (a few months with a large range from a few days to ten years) and this makes air pollution a very different case from the standard one (road accidents). For this reason, the appropriate...