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Egg-Timer: Natural Capital and Resource Economics Location: D-107 Session Chair: Yue Li, Beijing Institute of Technology | |
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Green space and mental health: Household investment incentives in a two-stage decision framework 1: School of Management, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; 2: Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China; 3: Beijing Laboratory for System Engineering of Carbon Neutrality, Beijing, 100081, China; 4: Basic Science Center for Energy and Climate Change, Beijing, 100081, China Confronted with the escalating global burden of mental health challenges and constrained medical resources, identifying low-cost, highly accessible environmental interventions is increasingly important. This study examines green space as an environmental health investment and investigates how household investment incentives shape its effects on mental health. We develop a two-stage theoretical model in which parents, acting as the first mover, invest in enhancing children’s efficiency in utilizing green space, after which children adjust their exposure in response. The results show that green space increases the marginal efficiency of health investments, which generates higher preventive efforts and improves mental health outcomes. To test the theoretical results, we employ a two-way fixed effects model using data from the China Family Panel Studies from 2016 to 2022. The findings suggest that a 0.1 increase in population-weighted Normalized Difference Vegetation Index score reduces depression scores by 9.9%. Effects are stronger among youth versus adults and in rural areas, larger households, and provinces with less greenness. Mechanism tests also indicate that frequency of exercise mediates the relationship among younger groups and that parental education amplifies the benefits. Those findings highlight how household behavior shapes environmental health effects and can inform targeted green infrastructure policies. | |