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Natural disasters and self-reported wellbeing: empirical evidence for rainfall extremes in the United Kingdom

In: Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment

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  • Michael Berlemann
  • Judith Regner
  • Jascha Tutt

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The authors study the effect of extreme precipitation events on self-reported measures of well-being. In order to do so they combine data from the United Kingdom (UK) Household Longitudinal Study with precipitation data, collected by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and study whether extreme rainfall events have a significant impact on happiness and life satisfaction. While they find no significant impact of rainfall measures on happiness, they detect a significantly negative effect on life satisfaction even when including numerous control variables, which capture the direct impact of disaster events. They thus find evidence in favour of the hypothesis that the mere risk of being confronted by natural disasters decreases life satisfaction.

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  • Michael Berlemann & Judith Regner & Jascha Tutt, 2020. "Natural disasters and self-reported wellbeing: empirical evidence for rainfall extremes in the United Kingdom," Chapters, in: David Maddison & Katrin Rehdanz & Heinz Welsch (ed.), Handbook on Wellbeing, Happiness and the Environment, chapter 7, pages 127-143, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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