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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation

Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 2009

individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …

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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015

endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the … 20% increase in accident-related injuries, a 14% increase in particle pollution, and an 11% increase in hospital …

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The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl: Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - CESifo - 2014

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

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Pass-through of CO2 Emission Costs to Hourly Electricity Prices in Germany

Hintermann, Beat - CESifo - 2014

I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot market data. I control for contemporaneous shocks to demand and supply by constructing a detailed supply curve for fossil generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for...

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The Value of a Statistical Life under Ambiguity Aversion

Treich, Nicolas - CESifo - 2008

We show that ambiguity aversion increases the value of a statistical life as soon as the marginal utility of wealth is higher if alive than dead. The intuition is that ambiguity aversion has a similar effect as an increase in the perceived baseline mortality risk, and thus operates as the...

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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - CESifo - 2014

Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...

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Robustness of a Simple Rule for the Social Cost of Carbon

Rezai, Armon; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2014

The optimal social cost of carbon is in general equilibrium proportional to GDP if utility is logarithmic, production is Cobb-Douglas, depreciation is 100% every period, climate damages as fraction of production decline exponentially with the stock of atmospheric carbon, and fossil fuel...

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CCS - Failing to Pass Decision Gates

Emhjellen, Magne; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2014

There is a planning gap for CCS projects in Europe. CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. This fact is at odds with optimistic valuation reports that apply socio-economic valuation criteria for climate projects. However, CCS plants are in most cases to be implemented by...

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A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture

Passel, Steven Van; Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - CESifo - 2014

This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...

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Time is Running Out: The 2°C Target and Optimal Climate Policies

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - CESifo - 2011

The quintessence of recent natural science studies is that the 2°C target can only be achieved with massive emission reductions in the next few years. The central twist of this paper is the addition of this limited time to act into a non-perpetual real options framework analysing optimal...

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