Destruction and Distress: Using a Quasi-Experiment to Show the Effects of the September 11 Attacks on Mental Well-Being in the United Kingdom

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Metcalfe, Robert; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Dolan, Paul
• 署名单位: University of Oxford; Nanyang Technological University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02416.x
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: F81-F103
• 关键词: life satisfaction; Terrorist attacks; happiness; HEALTH; IMPACT; utility; demand; income; experience; valuation

摘要

Using a longitudinal household panel dataset in the UK, where a significant proportion of the interviews are conducted in September each year, we are able to show that the attacks of September 11 resulted in lower levels of subjective well-being for those interviewed after that date in 2001 compared with those interviewed before it. This quasi-experiment provides one of the first examples of the impact of a terrorist attack in one country on well-being in another country.