Does money buy happiness?: evidence from urban China using twins.
Ye, Maoliang. === Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-36). === Abstracts in English and Chinese. === ABSTRACT --- p.i === 摘要 --- p.ii === ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii === Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 === Chapter 2 --- Lit...
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| Online Access: | http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5893303 http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-326090 |
| Summary: | Ye, Maoliang. === Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-36). === Abstracts in English and Chinese. === ABSTRACT --- p.i === 摘要 --- p.ii === ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii === Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 === Chapter 2 --- Literature Review --- p.5 === Chapter 2.1 --- Measurement of Happiness and Its Reliability --- p.5 === Chapter 2.2 --- Income and Happiness: Hypotheses --- p.8 === Chapter 2.3 --- Literature Review on MZ twins approach --- p.12 === Chapter 3 --- Methods --- p.15 === Chapter 3.1 --- Omitted Variable Bias (Selection Effect) --- p.15 === Chapter 3.1.1 --- Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Model --- p.15 === Chapter 3.1.2 --- Fixed-Effect (FE) Model --- p.16 === Chapter 3.2 --- Measurement Error --- p.17 === Chapter 4 --- Data --- p.19 === Chapter 5 --- Results --- p.21 === Chapter 5.1 --- Does Income Matter? --- p.21 === Chapter 5.1.1 --- OLS Regressions Using the Whole Sample --- p.21 === Chapter 5.1.2 --- Within-twin-pair Fixed-effect Estimations --- p.23 === Chapter 5.2 --- Sensitivity Analysis --- p.24 === Chapter 5.2.1 --- Other Indicators of Wealth --- p.24 === Chapter 5.2.2 --- Wage or Wage Rate? --- p.25 === Chapter 5.2.3 --- Measurement Error --- p.25 === Chapter 5.2.3.1 --- Does Education Matter? --- p.25 === Chapter 5.2.3.2 --- Reexamine the Income Effect --- p.27 === Chapter 5.3 --- Men vs Women --- p.29 === Chapter 5.4 --- Within Marriage: Income Pooling or Relative Economic Status? --- p.30 === Chapter 6 --- Conclusions --- p.31 === Chapter 7 --- Bibliography --- p.32 === Table 1: Descriptive Statistics of the Twins --- p.37 === Table 2: OLS Estimates of Happiness Using All Twins --- p.38 === Table 3: Ordered Probit Estimates of Happiness Using All Twins --- p.39 === Table 4: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effect Estimates of Happiness Using MZ Twins --- p.40 === Table 5: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effects Estimates of Happiness Using MZ Twins: Other Indexes --- p.41 === Table 6: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effects Estimates of Happiness Using MZ Twins: Using Wage Rate --- p.42 === Table 7a： Correlation Matrices of Different Measurements on Education --- p.43 === Table 7b： Correlation Matrices of Different Measurements on Income --- p.43 === Table 8: Estimates of The Effect of Education on Happiness: Considering Measurement Error --- p.44 === Table 9: Reexamine the Effect of Income on Happiness: Considering Measurement Error --- p.45 === Table 10: OLS Estimates of Happiness Using Female and Male Twins --- p.46 === Table 11: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effect Estimates of Happiness Using Male MZ Twins --- p.47 === Table 12: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effect Estimates of Happiness Using Female MZ Twins --- p.48 === Table 13: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effect Estimates of Happiness Using Married MZ Twins --- p.49 === Table 14: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effect Estimates of Happiness Using Married Male MZ Twins --- p.50 === Table 15: Within-twin-pair Fixed Effect Estimates of Happiness Using Married Female MZ Twins --- p.51 |
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