Study Knight et al. (2009): study CN 2002
- Public
- Adult general public, rural areas, China, 2002
- Survey name
- CN-National Household Survey China
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 9200
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Net wealth ('000 Yuan)
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Net wealth = financial assets
+ productive assets
+ consumer durables
- debts
Observed Relation with Happiness
basic variables
- age
- gender
- marital status
- ethinic minority dummy
- education (in years)
- self-reported health status
- hh-income
- working hours
- employment status
b uneffected by additional control for:
- province (dummies)
- comparison variables
- community variables
- attitudinal variables'.
b uneffected by additional control for:
- province (dummies)
Similar results when:
- happiness variable is treated as ordinal (ordered probit estimation)
- if the sample is devided into the lowest, middle and highest household and province income terciles, respectively, with net wealth being most important for people in the lowest income terciles.
Sample contains the very happy and the happy people
Sample contains the very unhappy and the unhappy people
OPRC controled for:
- basic variables (as above)
- comparison variables
- community variables
- attitudinal variables
b-iv controled for:
- basic variables (as above)
- comparison variables
- community variables
- attitudinal variables