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 uniqu...
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| author | Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Chen, Xi |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1494912025-11-06T05:03:52Z Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Chen, Xi mental health welfare psychology air pollution air quality 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. 2015-09-25 2024-08-01T02:49:26Z 2024-08-01T02:49:26Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149491 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150410 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149847 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154739 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154002 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; and Chen, Xi. 2015. Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? IFPRI Discussion Paper 1463. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149491 |
| spellingShingle | mental health welfare psychology air pollution air quality Zhang, Xin Zhang, Xiaobo Chen, Xi Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? |
| title | Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? |
| title_full | Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? |
| title_fullStr | Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? |
| title_short | Happiness in the air: How does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being? |
| title_sort | happiness in the air how does a dirty sky affect subjective well being |
| topic | mental health welfare psychology air pollution air quality |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149491 |
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