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 predicted by economic theory to be important for happiness are relatively unimportant. The analysis suggests that we...

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Main Authors: Knight, J, Song, L, Gunatilaka, R
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2007