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Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe

Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...

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As innovations drive economic growth, do they also raise well-being?

Binder, Martin; Witt, Ulrich - 2011

While there is little doubt that innovations drive economic growth, their effects on well-being are less clear. One reason for this are ambivalent effects of innovations on well-being that result from pecuniary and technological externalities of innovations, argued to be inevitable. Another...

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Impact of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the body mass index of children in Japan 2010 - 2014

Yamamura, Eiji - 2015

the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident on the body mass index (BMI) and obesity rates of children and any changes over time … the nuclear accident in Fukushima prevented younger primary school children from burning calories. Consequently, younger …

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How natural disasters can affect environmental concerns, risk aversion, and even politics : evidence from Fukushima and three European countries

Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - In: Journal of population economics 28 (2015) 4, pp. 1037-1180

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Distant event, local effects? : Fukushima and the German housing market

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led … internet platform for real estate to investigate the effect of Fukushima on the German housing market. Using a difference …-in-differences approach, we find that Fukushima reduced house prices near nuclear power plants that were in operation before Fukushima by …

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A dangerous neighbor : the news frames of the radiation effects from the Fukushima nuclear accident

Kim, Junga; Bie, Bijie - In: Risk management : a journal of risk, crisis and disaster 15 (2013) 3, pp. 180-198

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Nuclear accidents and policy : notes on public perception

Richter, Felix; Steenbeck, Malte; Wilhelm, Markus - 2013

Major nuclear accidents as recently in Fukushima set nuclear power plant security at the top of the public agenda …. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel we analyze the effects of the Fukushima accident and a subsequent government … economic costs of the policy. We find that the Fukushima accident increases the probability to report greater worries about the …

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Distant event, local effects? : Fukushima and the German housing market

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany’s energy policy which led … internet platform for real estate to investigate the effect of Fukushima on the German housing market. Using a difference …-in-differences approach, we find that Fukushima reduced house prices near nuclear power plants that were in operation before Fukushima by …

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U.S. housing prices and the Fukushima nuclear accident

Fink, Alexander; Stratmann, Thomas - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 117 (2015), pp. 309-326

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Measuring nuclear power plant externalities using life satisfaction data : a spatial analysis for Switzerland

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 126 (2016), pp. 98-111

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