Highlights•This review (178 published articles) systematically examines the psychological,
economic, and social effects of air pollution.•It is important to distinguish between the effects …

In development policy, international organizations have shifted their focus to the importance
of good governance and sound institutions. The theory behind this is that only with a high …

The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant
over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a micro literature has …

Employment relations in advanced, post-industrial democracies have become increasingly
insecure and uncertain as the risks associated with work are being shifted from employers …

The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination
since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed …

Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to
its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to …

This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and
Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in …

A leading economist discusses the potential of happiness research (the quantification of well-
being) to answer important questions that standard economics methods are unable to …

This study examines the causal relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, electricity
consumption and economic growth within a panel vector error correction model for five …

Happiness research is based on the idea that it is fruitful to study empirical measures of
individual welfare. The most common is the answer to a simple well-being question such as …