报告题目：Influence of air pollution on subjective well-being

报告所属学科：应用经济学

报告人：米志付（伦敦大学学院）

报告时间：2022年9月5日 19:00-21:00

报告地点：腾讯会议 743-618-579

报告摘要：

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 the sentiment analysis method 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 correlation 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 the concerns of the public to the central government, thereby helping it take appropriate actions to respond to the dynamics of subjective well-being.

报告人简介：

米志付，伦敦大学学院巴特莱特可持续建设学院教授、博士生导师、副院长，伦敦政治经济学院高级访问学者。致力于气候变化经济与政策研究，成果发表于Lancet、Science子刊、Nature子刊等国际知名期刊。入选科睿唯安“高被引科学家”，荣获世界可持续发展奖、中国百篇最具影响国际学术论文奖、Energy Economics最佳论文奖、Environmental Research Letters最佳青年学者论文奖、 Applied Energy高被引原创论文奖等。担任SSCI期刊Structural Change and Economic Dynamics（IF: 5.059）共同主编。