Using Happiness Data for Environmental Valuation: Issues and Applications

By H. Welsch, Jan Kühling. 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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Valuation Techniques for Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: (2011, background): “…to nonmarket goods. ii) Difficulties in estimating the marginal utility of the non-market good Indirect effects Welsch (2007, 2008a, 2008b) and Welsch and Kuhling (2009) recognise that the good being valued may also have indirect effects on well-being through some of the other control…”
Valuing scenic amenity using life satisfaction data (2011, background): “Further, there is no reason to expect strategic behaviour or social desirability bias in relation to the good being valued (Welsch and Kuhling, 2009).3 The purpose of this paper is to use the life satisfaction approach to value scenic amenity in South East Queensland (SEQ).”
Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments (2011, background): “self-rated happiness as a function of their socio-economic circumstances and prevailing environmental conditions (Welsch and Kuhling, 2008), thus permitting estimation of an implicit trade-off between the two.”
Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe (2012, background): “The effect of environmental quality on subjective well-being has also begun to be investigated (for a comprehensive summary see Welsch and Kühling, 2009, and Welsch, 2007, 2009).”
On the Determinants of Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Literature Review and Guide for the Empirical Economist (2019, background): “Individual factors : One decade ago, the happiness approach emerged as a novel approach to environmental valuation (Welsch and Kühling, 2009).”
Estimating the cost of air pollution in South East Queensland: An application of the life satisfaction non-market valuation approach (2013, background): “Strategic behaviour (e.g. free riding) and social desirability bias (where an individual responds to a stated preference question in what they perceive to be a socially desirable way) are avoided (Welsch and Kuhling, 2009).”
Does the presence of wind turbines have negative externalities for people in their surroundings? Evidence from well-being data (2017, background): “Conceptually, life satisfaction, which is also referred to as subjective well-being (Welsch and Kühling, 2009) or experienced utility (Kahneman et al.”