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Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being?
Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on subjective well-being using China as an example. By matching a unique longitudinal dataset at the individual level, which includes self-reported happiness and mental well-being measures, with contemporaneous local air quality and weather information according to the exact date and place of interview, we show that worse air quality reduces shorter-term hedonic happiness and increases the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from immediate bad air quality. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2; CRP4 ; DSGD; PIM; A4NH ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being?
Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on subjective well-being using China as an example. By matching a unique longitudinal dataset at the individual level, which includes self-reported happiness and mental well-being measures, with contemporaneous local air quality and weather information according to the exact date and place of interview, we show that worse air quality reduces shorter-term hedonic happiness and increases the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from immediate bad air quality. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; CRP2; CRP4 ; DSGD; PIM; A4NH ; CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM); CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being?
Zhang, Xin (author) / Zhang, Xiaobo (author) / Chen, Xi (author)
2015-01-01
Paper
Electronic Resource
English
ASIA , CHINA , I31 General Welfare , Q53 Air Pollution , Recycling , psychology , Well-Being , Noise , welfare , Solid Waste , air pollution , Hazardous Waste , life satisfaction , EAST ASIA , Water Pollution , mental well-being , air quality , hedonic happiness , Q51 Valuation of Environmental Effects
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