Low-income Settlement Reconstruction and Subjective Well-being - Based on Six Cities' Sample Survey in Liaoning Province

Chao Li and Shangchao Liu
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Chao Li: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Shangchao Liu: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

The Northeast Asian Economic Review, 2014, vol. 2, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: Low-income settlement is a common problem existing in many countries. By using 2012 survey data of UN-HABITAT and CASS, this paper focuses on the change of original residents' subjective happiness during the process of low-income settlement reconstruction in six cities of Liaoning province. Several conclusions are obtained: (1) Low-income settlement reconstruction had significant effects on original residents' happiness, the relation between income level and happiness exhibits an inverted-U shape after reconstruction; (2) Quantile regression estimation shows that the community life quality improvement affected positively on different happiness levels of original residents, while new communication methods and the change of neighbor relationship after reconstruction cannot improve subjective well-being; (3) According to the low-income class, the influencing factors of happiness is so different with other groups and also government's indirect pro-poor policies received slightly less positive effect. Therefore, authorities should pay more attention to both explicit and implicit effects of low-income settlement reconstruction.

Keywords: low-income settlement; social effect; subjective well-being; Liaoning province (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03
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