Climate and Happiness in the Tropics

Konferenzbeitrag

Despite the increasing number of studies on self-reported happiness, due to data availability, only a few studies from developing countries exist. Moreover, even though climate is among the most important input to human activities, only a handfull of studies explicitly associate it with self-reported wellbeing. This paper combines a survey of 17,000 individuals representing 85% of Indonesian population and GIS data on local climate to establish a causation between climate variables (temperature and rainfalls) on individual subjective well-being. We found that happiness is not associated with temperature, as expected because tropical country like Indonesia does not have much temperature variation. However, rainfall is found to significantly associated with self-reported happiness. We found that the relationship is not linear, where higher rainfall is associated with more happiness but it reduces it after some point. Policy implications are discussed.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: 56th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Cities & Regions: Smart, Sustainable, Inclusive?", 23-26 August 2016, Vienna, Austria

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; General Regional Economics: Other ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Other
• Thema: climate ; subjective-well-being ; happiness ; Indonesia

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Yusuf, Arief ; Siyaranamual, Martin Daniel ; Ghina, Aisyah Amatul ; Suryana, Megananda
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
• (wo): Louvain-la-Neuve
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174629
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ