Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China

By John Knight, Lina Song, R. Gunatilaka. 2009

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe (2010, neutral): “Knight and Song, 2006 ), and direct survey evidence on the groups to which individuals”
Happiness and job satisfaction in urban China: A comparative study of two generations of migrants and urban locals (2014, background): “, 2008), mood (Knight et al., 2009) or mental health indicators (Ferrer-i-Carbonell and Gowdy, 2007).”
Job Satisfaction and Co-worker Wages: Status or Signal? (2009, background): “would likely be a worse assumption in the case of Knight and Song (2006) , where the”
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? (2011, methodology): “…lack of appropriate data prevents us from answering the question directly, we approach it indirectly on the basis of our four previous papers that reported research on subjective well-being in China by means of a national household survey (Knight et al., 2009; Knight & Gunatilaka, 2009, 2010a, b).”
The Rural–Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? (2010, background): “Moreover, we are not aware of any economic research on subjective well-being in China beyond the analysis of the survey that we use (Appleton and Song, 2008; Knight et al, 2009 ; Knight and Gunatilaka, 2009a , b), except for a sociological study (Han and Whyte, 2009) and a brief figure in Kahneman”
Relative Income and Happiness in Asia: Evidence from Nationwide Surveys in China, Japan, and Korea (2011, background): “Knight et al. (2007) found that most of the respondents take the villages from which they came as reference points and are happier if their income is higher than the village average.”
The Determinants of Happiness of China’s Elderly Population (2012, methodology): “ Knight et al. (2009) use the IV approach to control for the endogenous problem, but it is being used for only the income variable.”
Happiness Economics from 35,000 Feet (2012, neutral): “But reference groups can also be defined over a specific geographical area (e.g. Luttmer, 2005; Knight et al., 2009); as family members, friends, or work colleagues; or as explicitly reported by the SWB survey respondent (these approaches require more data, and have been less widely employed).”
Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China (2012, neutral): “Unfortunately, the new dataset does not contain direct questions about reference groups (as used in Knight et al., 2009).”
Personal Well-being in Urban China (2009, background): “This result is similar to that of Appleton and Song (2008) and Knight et al. (2008) who also found a U-shape relationship between age and personal well-being.”
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society (2012, background): “Moreover, the same results have been obtained, and the same inference drawn, for rural China (Knight et al., 2009).”
Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being? (2017, methodology): “Following the literature (Oswald 1997; Knight, Song, and Gunatilaka 2009; Knight and Gunatilaka 2010, 2011; Easterlin et al. 2012), we control for a set of demographic correlates of happiness Xijt, including age and its square term, gender, marital status, years of education, unemployment status,…”