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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?
Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2014
This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China, using a specially designed sample survey relating to 2011. The underlying hypothesis is that the lifestyle and attitudes of ethnic minorities contribute to their happiness. Five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887045
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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?
Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China, using a specially designed sample survey relating to 2011.  The underlying hypothesis is that the lifestyle and attitudes of ethnic minorities contribute to their happiness. ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159002
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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329049
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Declining trust in growing China: A dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage
Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - 2015
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513002
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Declining trust in growing China : a dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage
Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - 2015
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513367
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Confucianism and preferences : evidence from lab experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201272
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Declining trust in growing China: A dilemma between growth and socio-economic damage
Dai, Shuanping; Elsner, Wolfram - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2015
Declining general trust has become a serious social issue in China in recent years. This paper attempts to understand … networks, it finds that the evolution of general trust is dependent on changes of the social interaction structure, and the … increases of both social and spatial distance may explain a decrease of the levels of cooperation and general trust. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273930
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Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - 2014
Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333287
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Why is there no income gap between the Hui Muslim minority and the Han majority in rural Ningxia, China?
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2014
Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248825
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Why is There No Income Gap between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2014
Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058296