报告人：米志付教授（英国伦敦大学学院副经理）

报告时间：2022年8月10日（星期三）上午9:30-12:30

地点：12BET主楼6楼

报告内容摘要：

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、副经理，伦敦政治经济学院高级访问学者。山东大学数学学院学士，12BET能源与环境政策研究中心博士。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。入选福布斯欧洲“30位30岁以下”精英榜单和科睿唯安“高被引科学家”，荣获伦敦大学学院杰出科研导师奖（全校每年1位）、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。

（承办：能源与环境政策研究中心、科研与学术交流中心）