International Journal of Social Science & Economic Research
Submit Paper

Title:
Effects of Climate Change on Intangible Well-Being (Happiness) in Sub-Saharan Africa

Authors:
Kouadio Aya Audrey Huguette Sandra and Kamdem Cyrille Bergaly

|| ||

Kouadio Aya Audrey Huguette Sandra1 and Kamdem Cyrille Bergaly2
1.Doctoral student at the University of Yaounde SOA, Cameroun.
2. Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Yaounde SOA, Cameroun.

MLA 8
Sandra, Kouadio Aya Audrey Huguette, and Kamdem Cyrille Bergaly. "Effects of Climate Change on Intangible Well-Being (Happiness) in Sub Saharan Africa." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 7 (July 2024), 2183-2199. Accessed July, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i07.010.
APA 6
Sandra, Kouadio Aya Audrey Huguette, and Kamdem Cyrille Bergaly. "Effects of Climate Change on Intangible Well-Being (Happiness) in Sub Saharan Africa." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 9, no. 7, July 2024, pp. 2183-2199, doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i07.010. Accessed July 2024.
Chicago
Sandra, Kouadio Aya Audrey Huguette, and Kamdem Cyrille Bergaly. "Effects of Climate Change on Intangible Well-Being (Happiness) in Sub Saharan Africa." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 9, no. 7 (July 2024), 2183-2199. Accessed July, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46609/IJSSER.2024.v09i07.010.

References

[1]. Agboola, M. O., F. V. Bekun, and U. Joshua (2021). Pathway to environmental sustainability : nexus between economic growth, energy consumption, co2 emission, oil rent and total natural resources rent in saudi arabia. Resources Policy 74, 102380.
[2]. Ahumada, G. and V. Iturra (2021). If the air was cleaner, would we be happier ? an economic assessment of the effects of air pollution on individual subjective well-being in chile. Journal of Cleaner Production 289, 125152.
[3]. Amuka, J. I., A. F. O. U. R. O. O. A. N. . O. T. (2018). Climate change and life expectancy in a developing country : evidence from greenhouse gas (co2) emission in nigeria. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues 8(4), 113.
[4]. Apergis, N. and M. T. Majeed (2021). Greenhouse gas emissions and cross-national happiness : a global perspective. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, 1–12.
[5]. Azam, M., I. Uddin, and N. Saqib (2023). The determinants of life expectancy and environmen- tal degradation in pakistan : evidence from ardl bounds test approach. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30(1), 2233–2246.
[6]. Bekun, F. V., A. A. Alola, and S. A. Sarkodie (2019). Toward a sustainable environment : Nexus between co2 emissions, resource rent, renewable and nonrenewable energy in 16-eu countries. Science of the Total Environment 657, 1023–1029.
[7]. Blomquist, G. C., M. C. Berger, and J. P. Hoehn (1988). New estimates of quality of life in urban areas. The American Economic Review, 89–107.
[8]. Bonasia, M., E. De Simone, M. D’Uva, and O. Napolitano (2022). Environmental protection and happiness : A long-run relationship in europe. Environmental Impact Assessment Re- view 93, 106704.
[9]. Braden, J. B. and C. D. Kolstad (1991). Measuring the demand for environmental quality. Number 333.7 M484. Elsevier.
[10]. Brereton, F., J. P. Clinch, and S. Ferreira (2006). Environmental amenities and subjective well- being : testing the validity of hedonic pricing.
[11]. Brereton, F., J. P. Clinch, and S. Ferreira (2008). Happiness, geography and the environment. Ecological economics 65(2), 386–396.
[12]. Brini, R. (2021). Renewable and non-renewable electricity consumption, economic growth and climate change : Evidence from a panel of selected african countries. Energy 223, 120064.
[13]. Brooks, J. J., G. N. Wallace, and D. R. Williams (2006). Place as relationship partner : An alternative metaphor for understanding the quality of visitor experience in a backcountry setting. Leisure Sciences 28(4), 331–349.
[14]. Cragg, M. and M. Kahn (1997). New estimates of climate demand : evidence from location choice. Journal of Urban Economics 42(2), 261–284.
[15]. Cragg, M. I. and M. E. Kahn (1999). Climate consumption and climate pricing from 1940 to 1990. Regional Science and Urban Economics 29(4), 519–539.
[16]. Cuñado, J. and F. P. De Gracia (2013). Environment and happiness : New evidence for spain. Social indicators research 112(3), 549–567.
[17]. Englin, J. (1996). Estimating the amenity value of rainfall. The Annals of Regional Science 30(3), 273–283.
[18]. Ferrer-i Carbonell, A. and J. M. Gowdy (2007). Environmental degradation and happiness. Ecological economics 60(3), 509–516.
[19]. Freeman, M. A. (1993). The measurement of environment and resource values : Theory and methods. Resources for the Future.
[20]. Gu, L., M. W. Rosenberg, and J. Zeng (2017). Competing forces of socioeconomic development and environmental degradation on health and happiness for different income groups in china. International Journal of Health Services 47(4), 752–777.
[21]. Guo, W., L. Chen, Y. Fan, M. Liu, and F. Jiang (2021). Effect of ambient air quality on subjective well-being among chinese working adults. Journal of Cleaner Production 296, 126509.
[22]. Hay, I. (1998). Making moral imaginations. research ethics, pedagogy, and professional human geography. Ethics, Place & Environment 1(1), 55–75.
[23]. Hoch, I. and J. Drake (1974). Wages, climate, and the quality of life. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 1(4), 268–295.
[24]. Hussain, M. N., Z. Li, A. Sattar, and M. Ilyas (2022). Dynamic linkage between tourism, corruption and co2 emission on economic growth in bri countries. Leisure Sciences, 1–19.
[25]. John, A., R. Pecchenino, D. Schimmelpfennig, and S. Schreft (1995). Short-lived agents and the long-lived environment. Journal of public economics 58(1), 127–141.
[26]. John F. Helliwell, Richard Layard, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Lara B. Aknin, and Shun Wang (2022). World happiness report.
[27]. Keyes, C. L. M. (1998). Social well-being. Social psychology quarterly, 121–140.
[28]. Le Dang, H., E. Li, I. Nuberg, and J. Bruwer (2014). Farmers’ perceived risks of climate change and influencing factors : A study in the mekong delta, vietnam. Environmental ma- nagement 54(2), 331–345.
[29]. Li, Z., H. Folmer, and J. Xue (2014). To what extent does air pollution affect happiness ? the case of the jinchuan mining area, china. Ecological Economics 99, 88–99.
[30]. Liao, P.-s., D. Shaw, and Y.-m. Lin (2015). Environmental quality and life satisfaction : Subjec- tive versus objective measures of air quality. Social Indicators Research 124(2), 599–616.
[31]. Lin, W.-H., W.-C. Pan, and C.-C. Yi (2019). “happiness in the air ?” the effects of air pollution on adolescent happiness. BMC Public Health 19(1), 1–10.
[32]. Liu, H., A. M. A. A. Z. M. W. . K. I. (2022). A non-linear analysis of the impacts of natural resources and education on environmental quality : Green energy and its role in the future. Resources Policy 79, 102940.
[33]. Luechinger, S. (2010). Life satisfaction and transboundary air pollution. Economics Let- ters 107(1), 4–6.
[34]. Luechinger, S. and P. A. Raschky (2009). Valuing flood disasters using the life satisfaction approach. Journal of Public Economics 93(3-4), 620–633.
[35]. MacKerron, G. and S. Mourato (2009). Life satisfaction and air quality in london. Ecological Economics 68(5), 1441–1453.
[36]. Mahmood, H., H. S. T. M. . F. M. (2022). Rule of law, control of corruption and co2 emissions in pakistan. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 12(4), 72–77.
[37]. Majeed, M. (2020). Reexamination of environmental kuznets curve for ecological footprint : the role of biocapacity, human capital, and trade. Majeed, MT, & Mazhar, M., Reexamination of Environmental Kuznets Curve for Ecological Footprint : The Role of Biocapacity, Human Capital, and Trade. Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences 14(1), 202–254.
[38]. Majeed, M. T. and I. Ozturk (2020). Environmental degradation and population health out- comes : a global panel data analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27(13), 15901–15911.
[39]. McMahon, D. M. (2006). Happiness : A history. Grove Press.
[40]. McMichael, A. J. et al. (2003). Global climate change and health : an old story writ large. Climate change and human health : Risks and responses. Geneva, Switzerland : World Health organization.
[41]. McMichael, A. J., D. H. Campbell-Lendrum, C. F. Corvalán, K. L. Ebi, A. Githeko, J. D. Sche- raga, and A. Woodward (2003). Climate change and human health : risks and responses. World Health Organization.
[42]. Mensah, I. A., M. Sun, C. Gao, A. Y. Omari-Sasu, D. Zhu, B. C. Ampimah, and A. Quarcoo (2019). Analysis on the nexus of economic growth, fossil fuel energy consumption, co2 emissions and oil price in africa based on a pmg panel ardl approach. Journal of Cleaner Production 228, 161–174.
[43]. mondiale, B. (2020). Worldwide governance indicators. Technical report, Banque mondiale. mondiale, B. (2021a). Climate change knowledge portal. Technical report, Banque mondiale.
[44]. mondiale, B. (2021b). Des donnÉes au service d’une vie meilleure. Technical report, Banque mondiale.
[45]. Nordhaus, W. (1996). Climate amenities and global warming. Climate change : Integrating science, economics, and policy 19.
[46]. pnud (1990). Rapport mondial sur le développement hum ain. Technical report, Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement.
[47]. Randell, H. and C. Gray (2019). Climate change and educational attainment in the global tropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(18), 8840–8845.
[48]. Rehdanz, K. and D. Maddison (2005). Climate and happiness. Ecological Economics 52(1), 111–125.
[49]. Rehdanz, K. and D. Maddison (2008). Local environmental quality and life-satisfaction in germany. Ecological economics 64(4), 787–797.
[50]. Remuzgo, L. and J. M. Sarabia (2015). International inequality in co2 emissions : A new factorial decomposition based on kaya factors. Environmental Science & Policy 54, 15–24.
[51]. Roback, J. (1982). Wages, rents, and the quality of life. Journal of political Economy 90(6), 1257–1278.
[52]. Rosen, S. (1974). Hedonic prices and implicit markets : product differentiation in pure compe- tition. Journal of political economy 82(1), 34–55.
[53]. Ryff, C. D. (1995). Psychological well-being in adult life. Current directions in psychological science 4(4), 99–104.
[54]. Ryff, C. D. and B. Singer (1998).The contours of positive human health. Psychological inquiry 9(1), 1–28.
[55]. Schmidt, J. (2013). The empirical falsity of the human subject : New materialism, climate change and the shared critique of artifice. Resilience 1(3), 174–192.
[56]. Sekulova, F., J. Van den Bergh, et al. (2016). Floods and happiness : Empirical evidence from bulgaria. Ecological Economics 126(C), 51–57.
[57]. Sekulova, F. and J. C. van Den Bergh (2013). Climate change, income and happiness : An empirical study for barcelona. Global Environmental Change 23(6), 1467–1475.
[58]. Sen, A. (1977). Starvation and exchange entitlements : a general approach and its application to the great bengal famine. Cambridge Journal of Economics 1(1), 33–59.
[59]. Sen, A. (1992). Inequality reexamined. Oxford University Press.
[60]. Shayegh, S., V. Manoussi, and S. Dasgupta (2021). Climate change and development in south africa : the impact of rising temperatures on economic productivity and labour availability. Climate and Development 13(8), 725–735.
[61]. Song, Y., A. Zhou, and M. Zhang (2020). Exploring the effect of subjective air pollution on happiness in china. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 27(34), 43299–43311.
[62]. Steel, G. D. (2000). Polar bonds : Environmental relationships in the polar regions. Environment and Behavior 32(6), 796–816.
[63]. Sternberg, R. J. (1987). Liking versus loving : A comparative evaluation of theories. Psycholo- gical Bulletin 102(3), 331.
[64]. Tiwari, A. K. et al. (2011). Happiness and environmental degradation : What determines hap- piness ?”. Economics Bulletin 31(4), 3192–3210.
[65]. Tiwari, A. K. and M. Mutascu (2015). The relationship between environmental degradation and happiness in 23 developed contemporary economies. Management of Environmental Quality : An International Journal.
[66]. Tokhi, M., L. Comrie-Thomson, J. Davis, A. Portela, M. Chersich, and S. Luchters (2018). Involving men to improve maternal and newborn health : a systematic review of the effecti- veness of interventions. PloS one 13(1), e0191620.
[67]. Van Tran, N., Q. Van Tran, L. T. T. Do, L. H. Dinh, and H. T. T. Do (2019). Trade off bet- ween environment, energy consumption and human development : Do levels of economic development matter ? Energy 173, 483–493.
[68]. Walster, E. H., E. Hatfield, and G. W. Walster (1978). A new look at love. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley.
[69]. Wang, L., V. X. V. S. M. . A. A. (2020). Globalization and carbon emissions : is there any role of agriculture value-added, financial development, and natural resource rent in the aftermath of cop21 ? Journal of Environmental Management 268, 110712.
[70]. Waterman, A. S. (1993). Two conceptions of happiness : Contrasts of personal expressiveness (eudaimonia) and hedonic enjoyment. Journal of personality and social psychology 64(4), 678.
[71]. Weinhold, D. (2013). The happiness-reducing costs of noise pollution. Journal of regional science 53(2), 292–303.
[72]. Yu, Y., D. Y. R. . C. F. F. (2018). Impact of population aging and industrial structure on co2 emissions and emissions trend prediction in china. Atmospheric Pollution Research 9(3), 446–454.
[73]. Zhang, X., X. Zhang, and X. Chen (2017a). Happiness in the air : How does a dirty sky affect mental health and subjective well-being ? Journal of environmental economics and manage- ment 85, 81–94.
[74]. Zhang, X., X. Zhang, and X. Chen (2017b). Valuing air quality using happiness data : the case of china. Ecological economics 137, 29–36.
[75]. Zhang, Y.-J., Y.-L. Jin, J. Chevallier, and B. Shen (2016). The effect of corruption on carbon dioxide emissions in apec countries : a panel quantile regression analysis. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 112, 220–227.

ABSTRACT:
This article analyzes the effect of climate change on intangible well-being over the period from 2006 to 2018 on a panel of 16 Sub-Saharan African countries. In order to achieve our objective, we used a PSTR (Panel Smooth Transition Regression) model. This estimation technique enabled us to find a non-linear relationship between climate change and happiness. Our results suggest the introduction of innovation policies such as economic complexity, industrialization and renewable energies. The latter will improve people’s lives, thus increasing happiness.

IJSSER is Member of