This paper investigates the relationship between pollution and life satisfaction in countries around the globe over recent decades. Our empirical model allows both per capita income and pollution to enter as arguments of a life satisfaction 'production function'. The results reveal that...

There is a dearth of research on how foreign aid and migrant remittances influence the level of happiness in recipient countries. This paper fills this void by presenting an empirical model where aid and remittances enter the happiness production function of a recipient country. We find that...

Several studies emphasize the importance of the general environment in recipient countries for effectiveness of development aid. Another more recent strand of the literature considers whether the receipt of aid affects the happiness of developing countries. Since corruption, an indicator of the...

The causal relationship between happiness and air pollution is examined using a sample of 14 European countries. Two sets of results are presented using the notion of Granger causality. For individual countries, the existence of a unidirectional or bidirectional causal structure for almost half...

The goal of this paper is to use a simple causality test in the spirit of Granger to answer three questions on the relationship between the foreign aid disbursements of a donor country and its level of happiness. First, do higher aid flows make a donor happier? Second, does a happier donor give...

The nature of the relationship between the provision of foreign aid to developing countries and the subsequent social and economic benefits experienced by them has long been debated. A small group of studies focus on the connection between aid and child school enrolment. However, these studies...

This article examines the relationship between foreign aid and ecological harm in developing countries. The study covers three types of ecological injury: carbon dioxide damage, water pollution and net deforestation. Results based on an empirical model where aid and injury are jointly...