associated with lower levels of both life satisfaction and happiness, especially when the commute times are extreme (≥ 1 hour per …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 …

.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of … contrast to previous papers in the literature, according to which commuting is bad for overall life satisfaction, we find no … evidence that commuting in general is associated with a lower life satisfaction. Rather, it appears that longer commutes are …

In this paper, we test the conventional wisdom in developing countries of 'more children, more happiness' by exploiting … the cohort and provincial variations of elderly parents exposed to the one-child policy in China. Using nationally … representative survey data from the 2015 China Health and Retirement Longitude Survey, the results from both the ordinary least …

's subjective well-being unchanged after experiencing traffic accidents. The coefficients of the life satisfaction equation … experience and life satisfaction. This result is in line with the extensive empirical research on hedonic adaptation that … individuals' life satisfaction unchanged when experiencing, directly or indirectly, a traffic accident. …

the rate of depressive symptoms. However, life satisfaction, an evaluative measure of happiness, is largely immune from …, 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 unique longitudinal dataset at the individual level, which …

satisfaction, hedonic happiness and mental health. We match a nationally representative survey in China with local air quality and … to air pollution across similar respondents living in the same county, we find that PM2.5 reduces hedonic happiness and … increases the rate of depressive symptoms, but does not affect life satisfaction. Our results show that the benefits of reducing …

life, are less studied. Using the latest two waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this … paper evaluates the impacts of having daughters on older parents' subjective well-being (SWB) in China, which has a rapidly … random, we find that having more daughters promotes older parents' SWB, especially overall life satisfaction, satisfaction …