资源环境科技发展态势分析平台

This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data according to the dates and counties of interviews in China, we are able to estimate the relationship between local concentration of particulate matter and individual happiness. By holding happiness constant, we calculate the tradeoff between the reduction in particulate matter and income, essentially a happiness-based measure of willingness-to-pay for mitigating air pollution. We find that people on average are willing to pay Sic258 ($42, or 1.8% of annual household per capita income) per year per person for a 1% reduction in PM2.5. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.