Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China

A national household survey for 2002, containing a specially designed module on subjective well-being, is used to estimate pioneering happiness functions in rural China. The variables that are predicted by economic theory to be important for happiness prove to be relatively unimportant. Our analysis...

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Volume:	20
Main Author:	KNIGHT, John SONG, Lina GUNATILAKA, Ramani
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	NEW YORK Elsevier Inc 2009 ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC Elsevier
published in:	China economic review Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 635 - 649
Data of publication:	2009
ISSN:	1043-951X 1873-7781
EISSN:	1873-7781
Discipline:	Economics
Series:	China Economic Review
Subjects:	Subjective well-being Happiness Poverty China Reference groups Relative deprivation Aspirations Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Happiness Subjective well-being Aspirations Relative deprivation Reference groups Poverty China Subjective well-being Happiness Poverty I 31 China Reference groups Relative deprivation Aspirations WELFARE INCOME INEQUALITY
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2009 Web of Knowledge Web of Science RePEc RePEc IDEAS CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS