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| Autor: | Kuo-Chung Wang, 王國仲 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 102 The Human Pursuit of economic development to improve the quality of life,and cause environmental pollution at the same time. In this dilemma, we tried to maintain the level of happiness and to found a balance between this two. This study used the level of respondents happiness and socioeconomic characteristics from Taiwan Social Change Survey in 2004-2010, as well as the pollutants and climatic characteristics from EPA air quality monitoring stations,and then we used registration date and zip code to merge this two data.Finally, we followed Levinson(2012) empirical methods and used Ordered Probit Model to estimate the level of Taiwan people's level of happiness. The empirical results showed that respondents socioeconomic characteristics and daily weather had a significant impact on the level of happiness .The respondents income had a significant positive effect on the level of happinese, while the air pollutants had a negative effect on the level of happiness but statistically not significant. According to the trade-off relationship between this two, we derived the average marginal rate of substitution between income and air pollution,that is, the willingness to pay of air quality.Conclusion suggested people in Taiwan willing to spend 1,154 dollars per day in exchange for one standard deviation improvement of particulates concentration in airborne. |
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