Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China

By Shiqing Jiang, Ming Lu, H. Sato. 2012

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A Conceptual Framework of Happiness at the Workplace (2014, background): “employed or unemployed (Jiang et al., 2012), full-time or part-time employment (Berger, 2009)).”
Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location (2015, background): “For studies elationship between happiness and hukou, see Jiang et al. (2012) and Tani (2015). appiness research, current health condition is often measured through subjective evaluations e.g. see Graham (2008). ht et al. (2009) reported that 68% of survey respondents in rural China considered…”
Leisure Time, Leisure Activities, and Happiness in China (2015, result): “This view is consistent with Kahneman’s theory of “hedonic adaptations,” which stresses that individual happiness is determined primarily by personality and genetics. Sakkthivel (2011) disclosed that nonmonetary leisure behavioral styles (e.”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “local-level measures of the distribution of income with data from a non-OECD country (China), finding a positive effect of the county-level Gini on respondents’ happiness (see also Jiang et al., 2012). One of the reasons why the degree of aggregation matters is that the Gini often moves only a littl”
The Dark Side of Chinese Growth: Declining Social Capital and Well-Being in Times of Economic Boom (2015, background): “Knight and Gunatilaka (2011), using survey data from 2002, conclude that income comparisons have a dominant impact on Chinese SWB. Jiang, Lu, and Sato (2012) show that income inequality between urban migrants and urban residents has a negative impact on SWB. Similarly, Knight and Gunatilaka (2010) a”
When Does Economic Growth Improve Life Satisfaction? Multilevel Analysis of the Roles of Social Trust and Income Inequality in 46 Countries, 1981–2012 (2017, background): “Vice-versa Jiang et al. (2012) documented that in poor countries, such as China, an increase of income inequality is associated to lower well-being only within some groups, while they document an overall positive effect of inequality on well-being.”