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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 …
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that active volunteers report significantly higher life satisfaction, feelings of worthwhileness, social connectedness, and …
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that active volunteers report significantly higher life satisfaction, feelings of worthwhileness, social connectedness, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223786
This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316297
This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people's preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction … these countries depresses life satisfaction in a sizeable and robust way. However, the calculation of the trade-off between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319367
In a 'smart' electricity distribution network, flexible distribution resources (FDRs) can be coordinated to improve efficiency. But coordination enables whoever controls such resources to exercise market power. The paper establishes the following efficiency rankings of market structures:...
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on life satisfaction using a combination of victimization and subjective survey data. We find county-level crime rates … and perceived neighborhood safety have little impact on overall life satisfaction. In contrast, the effect of a home … burglary on life satisfaction is quite large - nearly as much as moving from "excellent" to "good" health. In monetary terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047836
This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people's preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction … these countries depresses life satisfaction in a sizeable and robust way. However, the calculation of the trade-off between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071402
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662775