Aspirations, adaptation and subjective well-being of rural-urban migrants in China

This research is among the first to link the literatures on migration and on subjective well-being in developing countries. It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score lower than that of rural households? It examines the hypot...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Knight, J, Gunatilaka, R
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2008