This paper uses a set of panel data from happiness surveys, jointly with data on per capita income and pollution, to examine how self-reported well-being varies with prosperity and environmental conditions. This approach permits to show that citizens care about prosperity and the environment,...

Lebensqualität als Maßstab der Energiepolitik -- Energiebedingte Umweltbelastung und Klimawandel; Nuklearunfälle und empfundenes Risiko -- Nachbarschaftseffekte erneuerbarer Energieanlagen -- Erschwinglichkeit von Energie und Struktur der Energieversorgung.

Easterlin and O'Connor (PNAS 2022) have investigated which economic, social, political, and ecological factors explain long-run (36-year) changes in European countries' happiness (life satisfaction). Considering six potential predictors advanced in the pertinent literature, they found only...