China's life satisfaction, 1990-2010

被引:375
作者
Easterlin, Richard A. [1 ]
Morgan, Robson [1 ]
Switek, Malgorzata [1 ]
Wang, Fei [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ So Calif, Dept Econ, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
关键词
economic growth; happiness; well-being; ECONOMIC-GROWTH; RELATIVE INCOME; HAPPINESS; UNEMPLOYMENT; PARADOX; UTILITY;
D O I
10.1073/pnas.1205672109
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
070301 [无机化学]; 070403 [天体物理学]; 070507 [自然资源与国土空间规划学]; 090105 [作物生产系统与生态工程];
摘要
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries-a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life satisfaction of the magnitude that might have been expected to result from the fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend and U-shaped pattern appear to be related to a pronounced rise in unemployment followed by a mild decline, and an accompanying dissolution of the social safety net along with growing income inequality. The burden of worsening life satisfaction in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life satisfaction has been replaced by an increasingly unequal one, with decreasing life satisfaction in persons in the bottom third of the income distribution and increasing life satisfaction in those in the top third.
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页码:9775 / 9780
页数:6
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