Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data: The Case of China

Ecological Economics

Volumn 137, Issue , 2017, Pages 29-36

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Zhang, Xiaobo ^a,b   Chen, Xi ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; China; Hedonic happiness; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; TRADE-OFF; VALUATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

CHINA;

EID: 85014473229     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.02.020     Document Type: Article

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