Journal
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
Volume 88, Issue -, Pages 1-10Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.12.027
Keywords
Air quality; SO2 concentrations; Subjective well-being; Life satisfaction; Europe; European Social Survey; GIS
Funding
- European Science Foundation (Cross-National and Multi-level Analysis of Human Values, Institutions and Behaviour (HumVIB))
- FAS (Forskningsradet for Arbetsliv och Socialvetenskap, in English: Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research)
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation
- Formas through the program Human Cooperation to Manage Natural Resources (COMMONS)
- Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
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Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges three waves of the European Social Survey with a new dataset on environmental quality including SO2 concentrations and climate in Europe at the regional level. We find a robust negative impact of SO2 concentrations on self-reported life satisfaction. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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