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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271282
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008574588
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Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life
Ashenfelter, Orley C.; Greenstone, Michael - 2002
In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the states that adopted the higher speed limit must have valued the travel hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270573
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Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life
Ashenfelter, Orley; Greenstone, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a decade. Since the states that adopted the higher speed limit must have valued the travel hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703611
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Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017
Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786952
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Happy to Help: The Welfare Effects of a Nationwide Micro-Volunteering Programme
Dolan, Paul; Krekel, Christian; Shreedhar, Ganga; Lee, Helen - 2021
There is a strong suggestion from the existing literature that volunteering improves the wellbeing of those who give up their time to help others, but much of it is correlational and not causal. In this paper, we estimate the wellbeing benefits from volunteering for England's National Health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597577
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Daniel Kahneman's Underappreciated Last Published Paper: Empirical Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis and a Chat Session Discussion with Bots
Capra, C. Monica; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2025
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman's last published paper is an adversarial collaboration in which he and Matthew Killingsworth reconcile conflicting empirical results from their previous research on income and reported happiness, with Barbara Mellers as a facilitator. The empirical results use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015409480
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Weather Conditions and Daily Commuting
Belloc, Ignacio; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022
extreme weather conditions is that of personal travel, including commuting, an activity that is done daily by millions of … workers worldwide. Within this framework, we estimate the effects of weather conditions on daily commuting and travel choices … workers, finding significant relationships between daily weather conditions, commuting time, and travel choices. Rainy days …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470424
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Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2004
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is … direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower … this 'commuting paradox'. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262027
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Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is … direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we find that people with longer commuting time report systematically lower … this ‘commuting paradox’. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822509