Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China

Fredrik Carlsson, Elina Lampi, Wanxin Li () and Peter Martinsson
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Wanxin Li: Dept of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Postal: China Tsinghua Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, China

No 500, Working Papers in Economics from University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

Abstract: We examine what factors are correlated with subjective well-being among Chinese preadolescents. In particular, we investigate whether preadolescents’ subjective well-being is correlated with their parents’ subjective well-being. Interestingly, we find that the factors that affect parents’ subjective well-being do not influence their preadolescents’ subjective well-being, nor is there a significant correlation between the preadolescents’ subjective well-being and the well-being of their parents. Instead, we find that factors such as number of close friends, not being bullied, and spending time and conversing with parents are positively correlated with preadolescents´ subjective well-being. Another interesting finding is that preadolescents´ well-being does not seem to be correlated with their school performance.

Keywords: subjective well-being; children; intergenerational transmission; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 L51 L65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2011-05-18
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Published as Carlsson, Fredrik, Elina Lampi, Wanxin Li and Peter Martinsson, 'Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China' in Journal of Socio-Economics, 2014, pages 11-18.

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