Cargando…
Relationship between education and well-being in China
Well-being is often quantitatively measured based on individuals’ income or health situation but the relationship between education and well-being has not been fully investigated. It is also important to compare well-being using different individual characteristics especially gender. This paper anal...
Autores principales: | , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Springer India
2022
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9477166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36128330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40847-022-00193-1 |
_version_ | 1784790298228948992 |
---|---|
author | Liu, Sijia Heshmati, Almas |
author_facet | Liu, Sijia Heshmati, Almas |
author_sort | Liu, Sijia |
collection | PubMed |
description | Well-being is often quantitatively measured based on individuals’ income or health situation but the relationship between education and well-being has not been fully investigated. It is also important to compare well-being using different individual characteristics especially gender. This paper analyzes well-being using a unique dataset from the Chinese General Social Surveys in 2012, 2013, and 2015. Two measures of well-being are used: self-assessed unidimensional subjective well-being and parametrically estimated multidimensional objective well-being. Objective well-being is a composite parametric index with contributions from different domains of education influenced by identity, capability, and material well-being. These help in understanding the differences between and compare subjective and objective well-being. The results of our descriptive and regression analysis suggests that the multidimensional well-being index differs from subjective well-being in ranking individuals grouped by important common characteristics. These differences are captured by our study which helps to broaden the measurement and analysis of the multidimensionality of the well-being index. Education influences well-being positively, conditional on controlling for identity, capability, material and marital status, and Confucianism. Investments in education and female empowerment which target well-being measures will help reduce the dimensionality of the gender gap in rural China, in particular those attributed to Confucianism. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-9477166 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2022 |
publisher | Springer India |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-94771662022-09-16 Relationship between education and well-being in China Liu, Sijia Heshmati, Almas J Soc Econ Dev Research Paper Well-being is often quantitatively measured based on individuals’ income or health situation but the relationship between education and well-being has not been fully investigated. It is also important to compare well-being using different individual characteristics especially gender. This paper analyzes well-being using a unique dataset from the Chinese General Social Surveys in 2012, 2013, and 2015. Two measures of well-being are used: self-assessed unidimensional subjective well-being and parametrically estimated multidimensional objective well-being. Objective well-being is a composite parametric index with contributions from different domains of education influenced by identity, capability, and material well-being. These help in understanding the differences between and compare subjective and objective well-being. The results of our descriptive and regression analysis suggests that the multidimensional well-being index differs from subjective well-being in ranking individuals grouped by important common characteristics. These differences are captured by our study which helps to broaden the measurement and analysis of the multidimensionality of the well-being index. Education influences well-being positively, conditional on controlling for identity, capability, material and marital status, and Confucianism. Investments in education and female empowerment which target well-being measures will help reduce the dimensionality of the gender gap in rural China, in particular those attributed to Confucianism. Springer India 2022-09-15 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9477166/ /pubmed/36128330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40847-022-00193-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Liu, Sijia Heshmati, Almas Relationship between education and well-being in China |
title | Relationship between education and well-being in China |
title_full | Relationship between education and well-being in China |
title_fullStr | Relationship between education and well-being in China |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between education and well-being in China |
title_short | Relationship between education and well-being in China |
title_sort | relationship between education and well-being in china |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9477166/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36128330 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40847-022-00193-1 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT liusijia relationshipbetweeneducationandwellbeinginchina AT heshmatialmas relationshipbetweeneducationandwellbeinginchina |