Preferences over Prosperity and Pollution: Environmental Valuation based on Happiness Surveys

By Heinz Welsch. 2002

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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, positive): “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 variables.”
Life satisfaction and air quality in London (2009, positive): “To the best of our knowledge, only Welsch (2003) has NO2 concentration data regressed in a linear specification on a subjective well-being variable (in this case, a four-point international ’happiness’ scale).”
Using Happiness Data for Environmental Valuation: Issues and Applications (2009, positive): “15 That analysis is extended in Welsch (2007) to comprise total effects and nonmarginal changes in pollution.”
Valuing scenic amenity using life satisfaction data (2011, neutral): “In an early example of the approach being used in practise, Welsch (2002) uses cross-section data on reported well-being for 54 countries to value urban air pollution.”
The impact of economic, social and environmental factors on trip satisfaction and the likelihood of visitors returning (2016, neutral): “…Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Gowdy, 2007; Ferrer‐i‐Carbonell & Frijters, 2004; Frey & Stutzer, 1999, 2000, 2002; Helliwell, 2003; MacKerron & Mourato, 2009; Michalos & Zumbo, 2000; Rehdanz & Maddison, 2005; Stanca, 2009; van Praag & Baarsma, 2005; Welsch, 2002, 2006, 2007b; Winkelmann & Winkelmann, 1998).”
Pro-environmental behavior and rational consumer choice: Evidence from surveys of life satisfaction (2010, neutral): “…conditions usually use the estimated relationship between these variables to derive the implied monetary valuation of environmental amenities, see Welsch (2002, 2006) with respect to air pollution, Israel and Levinson (2003) with respect to water pollution, Frijters and Van Praag (1998) and…”
A review of air pollution impact on subjective well-being: Survey versus visual psychophysics (2018, positive): “The variables considered include air pollution (SO2, NO2 and particles), freedom, rationality, income and water pollution, and the results show that the impact of air pollution on SWB is difficult to measure (Welsch, 2002, 2007).”
On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation (2010, positive): “The relationship between public goods and SWB can be implicitly deduced without respondents being aware that their responses will be used to that end (Frey et al., 2004; Welsch, 2002, 2006).”
Quantifying the costs of drought: new evidence from life satisfaction data (2009, positive): “ Welsch (2002 ) f inds that a representative German citizen would need to be given more than $1,900 per year to accept the typical urban air pollution level prevailing in Japan.”
Toward a new welfare economics for sustainability (2005, positive): “Welsch (2002) uses reported well-being for 54 countries to estimate a hedonic indicator of the trade-off between environmental quality and per capita income.”