Using information on life satisfaction and crime from the European Social Survey, we apply the life satisfaction … reduce life satisfaction across Europe. Building upon these results, we quantify the monetary value of improvements in public … safety and its valuation in terms of individual well-being. The loss in satisfaction for victimized individuals corresponds …

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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 …