Climate and Individual Well-being

Yoshiro Tsutsui ()

No 11-01, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the influence of climate on well-being. While previous studies have compared the well-being of people living in different regions, this study focuses on individuals in one location. It is based on the daily data of 75 students for more than 400 days. Empirical analysis reveals that well-being is maximized at 17.5 degrees Celsius. The effects of the other meteorological variables--humidity, wind speed, sunshine hours, and precipitation--are not significant. However, the influence of temperature is weak and depends on the definition of well-being, a result that may be due to the mild climate of the Osaka region in Japan.

Keywords: global well-being; hedonic well-being; climate; daily web survey; Osaka region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 Q51 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2011-01
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