The Rural–Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness?

By John Knight, R. Gunatilaka. 2010

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

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Rural–Urban Differences in Life Satisfaction: Evidence from the European Union (2014, methodology): “…studies and the evidence shows significant and strong results for many of the investigated factors, the results are consistent across studies, and the estimated coefficients get the expected signs (for example, OSWALD, 1997; HELLIWELL and PUTNAM, 2004; GRAHAM, 2008; KNIGHT and GUNATILAKA, 2010).”
Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China (2012, methodology): “However, it covered only ve provinces (see Knight and Gunatilaka, 2010a; Gusta¤son et al., 2008; Qu and Zhao, 2011, for an extensive comparison between RUMICI and this previous migrant survey).”
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,…”
Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China (2012, methodology): “For example, in China, there are some 242 million rural-to-urban migrants, representing almost one-sixth of the Chinese population.”
Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being (2012, background): “Even more move internally; for example, the current shift from rural to urban China is the largest migration flow in history (Zhao, 1999).”
Poor, or Just Feeling Poor? On Using Subjective Data in Measuring Poverty (2012, background): “…(2001), Ravallion and Lokshin (2001, 2002, 2010), Graham and Pettinato (2002), Senik (2004), Luttmer (2005), Ferrer-i-Carbonell (2005), Herrera et al. (2006), Bishop and Luo (2006), Kingdon and Knight (2006, 2007), Fafchamps and Shilpi (2009), Knight and Gunatilaka (2010) and Castilla (2010).”
Happiness and job satisfaction in urban China: A comparative study of two generations of migrants and urban locals (2014, background): “A subset of this literature examines the determinants of wellbeing of rural-urban migrants (see e.g. Gao & Smyth, 2011; Knight & Gunatilaka, 2010; Nielsen et al., 2010).”
Inequality in China: An Overview (2013, unknown): “In the cities, where a doubling of income raises the happiness score by 0.10 units, the happiness of respondents whose households fall into the lowest quarter of city income per capita is 0.81 points below those in the highest quarter (Knight and Gunatilaka 2010).”
What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States (2017, unknown): “Knight and Gunatilaka (2010b, 2010a) find that wealthier urbanites in China are actually less happy than rural dwellers, perhaps suggesting that migrants are forgoing current well-being for future economic prosperity.”
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? (2011, methodology): “For over a quarter of a century China’s reformist policy-makers gave the highest priority to the achievement of rapid economic growth.”