Development of urban transport infrastructures is a key policy focus---particularly in countries like China which have … estate market, little is known about the consequences of local public goods improvements for homeowners' subjective wellbeing … using reported happiness data. This paper uses a difference-in-difference method to empirically measure the impact of rail …

policy making in China. …

policy making in China. …

This paper investigates the effect of big-city life on individuals' well-being. Combining data on Italian … municipalities' characteristics with individual-level survey data, I find that city size negatively affects subjective well-being … of the differences in subjective well-being among cities of different size. There is suggestive evidence that the …

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …

African countries, but modest gains for Northern Europe. -- Climate ; climate change ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey …

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new … stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation …

This study explores the relationship between self-reported well-being and recycling rates. The estimates are based on … Britain using data from the British Household Panel Survey. The effects of recycling rates on individuals’ happiness are … self-reported well-being and recycling is presented …

subjective well-being in a sample of 16- to 65-year-old employees in urban China. We find evidence that a longer commute time is … employee's loss in well-being at approximately 82 yuan per hour of commute time, implying that, in urban China, the annual loss …Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the association between commute time and …