-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and … China, conditional on socio-economic differences. On the other hand, rural residents are poorer than urban residents so that …

We study happiness adaptation to income and poverty using an individual panel data on life satisfaction of 10046 … subjects living in China from 2010 to 2018. We find robust evidence of adaptation to both income and poverty. The adaptation to …