determinants of subjective well-being.  Less attention has been paid to its normative implications.  Taking China as a case study …

appropriate data set for China.  The tests favour the early theories.  Implications are drawn. …

countries.  It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score …

. It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score lower …

The paper uses an appropriate survey from rural China to answer the question: Is happiness infectious, i.e. does the …

A specially designed household survey for rural China is used to analyse the determinants of aspirations for income … existence of a partial hedonic treadmill, and can help to explain why subjective well-being in China appears not to have risen …