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| Title: | | The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation  |
| Authors: | | Frey, Bruno S. Luechinger, Simon Stutzer, Alois |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4478 |
| Abstract: | | 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 technique. The LSA builds on the recent development of subjective well-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 and other covariates. The estimated coefficients for the environmental good and income can then be used to calculate the implicit willingness-to-pay for the environmental good. |
| Subjects: | | Life satisfaction approach subjective well-being non-market valuation cost-benefit analysis air pollution |
| JEL: | | Q51 I31 D61 Q53 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091019279 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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