主办单位

中国人民大学应用经济学院

主讲嘉宾

米志付

伦敦大学学院教授

参编期刊

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (SSCI, 影响因子5.059)主编

会议信息

时间

2022年10月20日（星期四）

北京时间 16：00-17：30

主持人

应用经济学院 陈浩

线上地点

腾讯会议：683-484-941

密码：1020

会议链接：

https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/f9roZACNCx9B

主讲人简介

米志付，伦敦大学学院(UCL)气候变化经济学教授，伦敦大学学院巴特莱特 (The Bartlett)可持续建筑学院研究主任；米老师的论文发表在Lancet, Science Advances, Nature Energy, Nature Food, and Nature Sustainability等国际知名期刊；他目前担任期刊Structural Change and Economic Dynamics的主编。他被授予世界可持续发展奖，并被列入Clarivate “高被引学者”。他的研究被国际期刊Energy Economics授予最佳论文奖，并被国际期刊Environmental Research Letters授予最佳早期职业文章奖。

讲座题目

Dirty skies lower subjective well-being

讲座摘要

Self-reported life satisfaction of China's population has not improved as much as expected during the economic boom, which was accompanied by a significant decline in environmental performance. Is environmental pollution the culprit for the lagging subjective well-being? To explore this issue, this paper adopts sentiment analysis to construct a real-time daily subjective well-being metric at the city level based on the big data of online search traces. Using daily data from 13 Chinese cities centred on Beijing between August 2014 and December 2019, we look at the corelation between subjective well-being and air pollution and the heterogeneity in this relationship based on two separate identification strategies. We find that air pollutants are negatively correlated with subjective well-being, and well-being tends to decline more from pollution during hot seasons. In addition, residents in wealthier regions tend to be more sensitive to air pollution. This result may be explained by the differences in the subjective perception of air pollution and personal preferences at different levels of income. These findings provide information about concerns of the public, thereby helping the government to take appropriate actions to respond to the dynamics of subjective well-being.

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设计 责编：朱宇馨 马文林

审核：韩奕 宋枫