Climate change interacts with other environmental stressors and vulnerability factors.Some places and,owing to socioeconomic conditions,some people,are far more at risk.The data behind current assessments of the envir...Climate change interacts with other environmental stressors and vulnerability factors.Some places and,owing to socioeconomic conditions,some people,are far more at risk.The data behind current assessments of the environment−wellbeing nexus is coarse and regionally aggregated,when considering multiple regions/groups;or,when granular,comes from ad hoc samples with few variables.To assess the impacts of climate change,we require data that are granular and comprehensive,both in the variables and population studied.We build a publicly accessible data set,the SHARE-ENV data set,which fulfills these criteria.We expand on EU representative,individual-level,longitudinal data(the SHARE survey),with environmental exposure information about temperature,radiation,precipitation,pollution,and flood events.We illustrate through four simplified multilevel linear regressions,cross-sectional and longitudinal,how full-fledged studies can use SHARE-ENV to contribute to the literature.Such studies would help assess climate impacts and estimate the effectiveness and fairness of several climate adaptation policies.Other surveys can be expanded with environmental information to unlock different research avenues.展开更多
基金funding from the European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program grant agreement No.756194,“ENERGYA,”and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 956107,“Economic Policy in Complex Environments(EPOC)”MNM was supported by the European Commission(H2020-MSCA-IF-2020)under REA grant agreement no.101022870.
文摘Climate change interacts with other environmental stressors and vulnerability factors.Some places and,owing to socioeconomic conditions,some people,are far more at risk.The data behind current assessments of the environment−wellbeing nexus is coarse and regionally aggregated,when considering multiple regions/groups;or,when granular,comes from ad hoc samples with few variables.To assess the impacts of climate change,we require data that are granular and comprehensive,both in the variables and population studied.We build a publicly accessible data set,the SHARE-ENV data set,which fulfills these criteria.We expand on EU representative,individual-level,longitudinal data(the SHARE survey),with environmental exposure information about temperature,radiation,precipitation,pollution,and flood events.We illustrate through four simplified multilevel linear regressions,cross-sectional and longitudinal,how full-fledged studies can use SHARE-ENV to contribute to the literature.Such studies would help assess climate impacts and estimate the effectiveness and fairness of several climate adaptation policies.Other surveys can be expanded with environmental information to unlock different research avenues.