Home ownership and life satisfaction of migrants in urban China

Jennifer Te Lai, Mengqian Ye and Hao Zhang ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 28, issue 4, 287-293

Abstract: This article investigates the impact of homeownership on life satisfaction for urban migrants in China. By utilizing three waves of the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey data from 2012 to 2016, we find that homeownership has a positive and significant effect on life satisfaction of urban migrants. This effect remains robust with different model specifications. In addition, this effect is mainly concentrated in those aged above 38, or at the top quartile of income distribution among migrants, or residing in the east coastal region. We also show that the positive effect of homeownership remains when the possibility of its endogeneity is tackled by instrumental variable estimation.

Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13504851.2020.1752359 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:28:y:2021:i:4:p:287-293

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RAEL20

DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1752359

Access Statistics for this article

Applied Economics Letters is currently edited by Anita Phillips

More articles in Applied Economics Letters from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().