Measurement and Analysis of Well-Being in Developed Regions in China

Almas Heshmati (), Biwei Su () and Seon-Ae Kim ()
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Biwei Su: #x2020;Department of Food and Resource Economics, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Korea University, East Building, Anam-dong Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-713, Korea
Seon-Ae Kim: #x2020;Department of Food and Resource Economics, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Korea University, East Building, Anam-dong Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 136-713, Korea

China Economic Policy Review (CEPR), 2015, vol. 04, issue 01, 1-22

Abstract: The need for studies on well-being in China has increased in recent years. However, women’s well-being is an area that has not received adequate attention. The purpose of this research is to have a clear understanding of how well women have compared with men on the whole in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong — the three developed provinces in China. To achieve this, we computed and compared the well-being of 4,367 women and men by utilizing the latest survey data of 2009 from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. We have measured well-being by computing multidimensional indices which are dependent on five domains: material and educational well-being, health, behavior and risks, family and peer relationships, and subjective well-being. These domains were aggregated either with the same weights or with different weights estimated by the principal component analysis. The findings suggest that, generally, men have a higher level of well-being than women in all these three provinces in China. Also, the domains of behavior and risks as well as material and educational well-being contribute most to individuals’ well-being. Furthermore, women score much lower than men do in subjective well-being.

Keywords: Well-being; multidimensional well-being index; women; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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