Valuing Public Goods Using Happiness Data: The Case of Air Quality

By Arik Levinson. 2012

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

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A review of air pollution impact on subjective well-being: Survey versus visual psychophysics (2018, unknown): “The concentration of PM10 was shown to have an effect on individual-level SWB. Levinson (2012) obtained the happiness data from the General Social Survey (GSS), which provides the date and location of the survey for each respondent.”
Life satisfaction dynamics with quarterly life event data (2011, unknown): “, 2004), airport noise (van Praag and Baarsma, 2005), air pollution (Levinson, 2009), informal care (van den Berg and Ferrer-iCarbonell, 2007), bereavement (Oswald and Powdthavee, 2008b), droughts (Carroll et al.”
Does happiness data say urban parks are worth it? (2018, methodology): “For example, it has been used for evaluation of monetary values of public goods such as air quality (Levinson, 2012), public green space (Ambrey & Fleming, 2014), and scenic amenity (Ambrey & Fleming, 2011).”
Well-Being across America (2011, unknown): “…Clark (2003), Di Tella, MacCulloch, and Oswald (2001, 2003), Blanchflower and Oswald (2004), Kahneman et al. (2004), Layard (2005), Deaton (2008), Levinson (2009), Daly and Wilson (2009), Stevenson and Wolfers (2009), and Luechinger (2009), we view survey well-being data as proxy utility…”
Relating ecoystem services to domains of human well-being: Foundation for a U.S. index (2013, background): “…from human well-being accounts despite the fact that the environment plays a vital role in quality of life (Deutsch et al., 2003; Hirschberg et al., 1998; Smyth et al., 2008; Cox et al., 2006; Wainger and Price, 2004; Levinson, 2009; MEA, 2005; Rahaman et al., 2005; Folke ∗ Corresponding author.”
Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being? (2017, methodology): “3 This approach complements the direct survey method to solicit people’s WTP for improvement in air quality with a few advantages (Levinson 2012).”
Estimating the cost of air pollution in South East Queensland: An application of the life satisfaction non-market valuation approach (2013, methodology): “The data employed compares favourably with other studies that purport to employ spatially disaggregated data and yet often rely on a sparse coverage of monitoring stations and thus require substantial extrapolation (cf. Levinson, 2012; Luechinger, 2009).”
Does the presence of wind turbines have negative externalities for people in their surroundings? Evidence from well-being data (2017, background): “As this approach has already been applied to various other environmental externalities, including air pollution (Ambrey et al., 2014; Ferreira et al., 2013; Levinson, 2012), landscape amenities (Kopmann and Rehdanz, 2013), noise pollution (Rehdanz and Maddison, 2008; van Praag and Baarsma, 2005), or”
The impact of economic, social and environmental factors on trip satisfaction and the likelihood of visitors returning (2016, background): “Environmental impact on sustainable tourism discussed by (Casagrandi & Rinaldi, 2002; Giannoni & Maupertuis, 2007; Hernández & León, 2007, (Alegre & Garau, 2010, 2011; Brau & Cao, 2008; Casagrandi & Rinaldi, 2002; Cerina, 2007; Coghlan, 2012; Giannoni & Maupertuis, 2007; Hernández & León, 2007, 2013”
Temperature and temperament: Evidence from Twitter (2020, methodology): “…Rehdanz and Maddison (2005) estimate the relationship between climate and self-reported happiness, and include a valuation method based on country-level GDP. Levinson (2012) conducts a similar exercise to estimate WTP to avoid pollution using happiness data, but includes weather as a covariate.”
The Economics of Happiness (2021, background): “…the literature has examined the subjective wellbeing implications of tax policy (Gruber & Mullainathan, 2005), pollution and climate change (Levinson, 2012; Rehdanz & Maddison, 2005), terrorism (Akay et al., 2020), international trade (Colantone et al., 2019), and migration flows (e.g.,…”