. After controlling for demographic attributes, health, unemployment status, household size, agricultural hukou (household … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and … poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …

Previous research has found that subjective well-being (SWB) is lower for individuals classified as being in poverty … with the state-level poverty ratio while controlling for individual poverty status and poverty intensity. The negative … relationship between aggregate poverty and SWB is more salient in the upper segments of the income distribution and is robust to …