Small acts with big impacts: Does garbage classification improve subjective well-being in rural China?

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Small acts with big impacts: Does garbage classification improve subjective well-being in rural China?

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Solid waste has surged in rural China, home to more than 540 million people. To preserve the environment, the Chinese government has piloted garbage classification programs. However, little is known about whether and to what extent classifying garbage affects people's subjective well-being—should its effects be positive, people would be more amenable to classifying garbage, making it easier to entrench garbage classification practices and programs and ultimately improve the environment. Accor...

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2023-01-17

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Li, J / Vatsa, Puneet / Ma, Wanglin

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https://hdl.handle.net/10182/15905

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China / endogenous treatment regression model / garbage classification / happiness / life satisfaction / Waste management, reduction, reuse and recycling / Other psychology not elsewhere classified / Environmental sociology / Environment and resource economics / Sociology / Applied and developmental psychology

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