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| Id | 134 | |
| Author | Li, Y., ; Winters, J., V. | |
| Title | Urbanisation, natural amenities and subjective well-being: Evidence from US counties. | |
| Reference | Winters, J.V.; Li, Y. (2017). Urbanisation, natural amenities and subjective well-being: Evidence from US counties. Urban Studies, 54(8): 1956-1973. |
Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016631918 |
| Abstract | This paper examines the relationships between county-level urbanisation, natural amenities and subjective well-being (SWB) in the US. SWB is measured using individual-level data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which asks respondents to rate their overall life satisfaction. Using individual-level SWB data allows us to control for several important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanisation lowers SWB, with relatively large negative coefficients for residents in dense counties and large metropolitan areas. Natural amenities also affect SWB, with warmer winters having a significant positive relationship with self-reported life-satisfaction. Implications for researchers and policymakers are discussed. |
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| Areas with better natural amenities might be expected to increase individual well-being. . | More generally, policy should continually aim to improve well-being by both better leveraging the benefits of cities such as higher productivity and human capital accumulation and minimising the costs that urbanisation creates.. | Living in a stronger local labour market with lower unemployment rates is expected to increase well-being. . | That these factors might affect well-being is not new, but the approach taken in this paper is novel in many ways and aims to provide additional insights to the existing literature. . | Positive effects of urbanisation on well-being might result from agglomeration economies and increased variety and quality of consumption opportunities. . | Researchers and policymakers are interested in how various factors affect individual wellbeing, in part because of interest in improving the well-being of others. . |
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