Workplace environmental conditions and life satisfaction in Spain

Abstract

This paper expands the research on subjective well-being and outdoor environmental conditions by considering environmental conditions indoors. Specifically, we examine the impact on life satisfaction of self-perceived levels of air and noise pollution in the workplace. We provide a monetary valuation of these environmental conditions, using the life-satisfaction approach. Our results demonstrate that poor air quality and high noise levels in the workplace markedly diminish life satisfaction. This holds even after we control for potential endogeneity arising from simultaneity of self-perceived workplace environmental variables and life satisfaction, by employing an instrumental variable strategy.

Climate Change–Related Heat Stress and Subjective Well-Being in Australia

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“…However, the concept of well-being has many dimensions (Steptoe et al 2015;Frey 2018). The most commonly used measure of well-being, usually evaluated from responses to a single question, is life satisfaction, a person's evaluation of how she or he perceives her or his life has been so far (Frey et al 2010;García-Mainar et al 2015). This measure of well-being is expected to increase in some cooler parts of the world as mean temperatures rise but to decline in regions that are already hot (Maddison and Rehdanz 2011) and where climate changerelated extreme weather events, such as floods (Luechinger and Raschky 2009;Sekulova and van den Bergh 2016;von Möllendorff and Hirschfeld 2016), droughts (Carroll et al 2009), and heat waves (Osberghaus and Kühling 2016), become more frequent or severe.…”

Economic Value of Parks via Human Mental Health: An Analytical Framework

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