NDLI: Public Assistance, Economic Prospect, and Happiness in Urban China

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Author	Gao, Qin Zhai, Fuhua
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This article investigates the association between urban China’s primary public assistance program—the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (MLG, or Dibao)—and recipients’ subjective well-being using the national China Household Income Project 2002 data. We use a propensity score matching method to address selection bias and a mediation modeling approach to explore the associational pathways between Dibao participation, economic prospect, and happiness. We find that Dibao recipients tended to be less optimistic about their economic prospect and less happy than their non-recipient peers of similar socio-demographic characteristics. The possible influence of Dibao participation on happiness was mediated by the projected lack of income increase in the next 5 years, but not by their views on societal income distribution and inequality. These findings call for future reforms of the urban Dibao to improve not only the economic conditions but also the subjective well-being of China’s urban poor.
Starting Page	451
Ending Page	473
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03038300
Journal	Social Indicators Research
Volume Number	132
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730921
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-11-16
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Public assistance Dibao Economic prospect Happiness Propensity score matching China Sociology Quality of Life Research Microeconomics Public Health Human Geography
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Arts and Humanities Developmental and Educational Psychology

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