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The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China
Air pollution imposes detrimental impacts on residents’ health and the general quality of life. Quantifying the influential mechanism of air pollution on residents’ happiness and the economic value brought by environmental quality improvement could provide a scientific basis for the construction of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9102462/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564929 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095534 |
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author | Liu, Qianqian Dong, Guanpeng Zhang, Wenzhong Li, Jiaming |
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description | Air pollution imposes detrimental impacts on residents’ health and the general quality of life. Quantifying the influential mechanism of air pollution on residents’ happiness and the economic value brought by environmental quality improvement could provide a scientific basis for the construction of livable cities. This study estimated urban residents’ willingness to pay for air pollution abatement by modeling the spatial relationship between air quality and self-rated happiness with a Bayesian multi-level ordinal categorical response model. Using large-scale geo-referenced survey data, collected in the Bohai Rim area of China (including 43 cities), we found that a standard deviation decrease in the number of polluted days over a year was associated with about a 15 percent increase in the odds of reporting a higher degree of happiness, after controlling for a wide range of individual- and city-scale covariate effects. On average, urban residents in the Bohai Rim region were willing to pay roughly 1.42 percent of their average monthly household income for mitigating marginal reductions in air pollution, although great spatial variability was also presented. Together, we hoped that these results could provide solid empirical evidence for China’s regional environmental policies aiming to promote individuals’ well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-91024622022-05-14 The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China Liu, Qianqian Dong, Guanpeng Zhang, Wenzhong Li, Jiaming Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Air pollution imposes detrimental impacts on residents’ health and the general quality of life. Quantifying the influential mechanism of air pollution on residents’ happiness and the economic value brought by environmental quality improvement could provide a scientific basis for the construction of livable cities. This study estimated urban residents’ willingness to pay for air pollution abatement by modeling the spatial relationship between air quality and self-rated happiness with a Bayesian multi-level ordinal categorical response model. Using large-scale geo-referenced survey data, collected in the Bohai Rim area of China (including 43 cities), we found that a standard deviation decrease in the number of polluted days over a year was associated with about a 15 percent increase in the odds of reporting a higher degree of happiness, after controlling for a wide range of individual- and city-scale covariate effects. On average, urban residents in the Bohai Rim region were willing to pay roughly 1.42 percent of their average monthly household income for mitigating marginal reductions in air pollution, although great spatial variability was also presented. Together, we hoped that these results could provide solid empirical evidence for China’s regional environmental policies aiming to promote individuals’ well-being. MDPI 2022-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9102462/ /pubmed/35564929 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095534 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Liu, Qianqian Dong, Guanpeng Zhang, Wenzhong Li, Jiaming The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China |
title | The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China |
title_full | The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China |
title_fullStr | The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China |
title_full_unstemmed | The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China |
title_short | The Influence of Air Pollution on Happiness and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in the Bohai Rim Area of China |
title_sort | influence of air pollution on happiness and willingness to pay for clean air in the bohai rim area of china |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9102462/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35564929 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095534 |
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