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Subjective well-being in China, 2005-2010 : the role of relative income, gender and location
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Xiao, Saizi; Yeoh, Kok Kheng - 2016
We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being...
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students' educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318731
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Determinants of the Quality of Life of Elderly during Demographic Transitions of Population Giants : China and India
Ghosh, Dona - 2016
. Focusing on India and China, this study analyses nature of data of aged people and compares the determining factors of QoL of … determining factors of quality of life of elderly people of emerging giant China and India. Perceived quality of life of elderly … people in India and China mainly vary due to sex, age, education, social cohesions, mood, co-morbidity, and level of family …
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The human development index as isoelastic GDP : evidence from China and Pakistan
Bechtel, Gordon G. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-9
Gross domestic product (GDP) is shown to possess three new desiderata. First, GDP is almost perfectly correlated over time with the first principal component of its three classical indicators. Second, this principal component is in a class of weighted indexes ancillary to GDP. Each ancillary...
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Hukou changes and subjective well-being
Tani, Massimiliano - 2015
The literature on subjective well-being has highlighted the negative effects associated with the restrictions and inequality imposed by the hukou system on China's rural population. However, quantifying the cost of holding a rural hukou has generally been problematic, principally for lack of...
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Commute time and subjective well-being in urban China
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2015
Using data from the 2010 China Family Panel Studies, this study investigates the association between commute time and subjective well-being in a sample of 16- to 65-year-old employees in urban China. We find evidence that a longer commute time is associated with lower levels of both life...
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Happiness in the air : how does a dirty sky affect subjective well-being?
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2015
Existing studies that evaluate the impact of pollution on human beings understate its negative effect on cognition, mental health, and happiness. This paper attempts to fill in the gap via investigating the impact of air quality on subjective well-being using China as an example. By matching a...
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Valuing air quality using happiness data : the case of China
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2016
This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching hedonic happiness in a nationally representative survey with daily air quality data according to exact dates and locations of interviews in China, we are able to estimate the...
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China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries – a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life...
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