祝仲坤 马旺林 冷晨昕 聂鹏 | 幸福感与消费支出：来自中国农村的证据【转】

作者：祝仲坤 (华中农业大学)，马旺林（新西兰林肯大学），冷晨昕（中国农业大学），聂鹏（西安交通大学）

摘要：

基于2016年中国劳动力动态调查（CLDS）数据，本文运用两阶段残差介入（2SRI）方法实证分析了中国农民的幸福感与消费支出的关系。实证结果表明，总体而言幸福感对农民消费支出具有显著的正向影响。进一步，幸福感与农民的基本生活支出、教育支出及人情支出均存在显著的正向关系。研究结果还发现，家庭收入及农民互联网使用在幸福感和消费支出的正向关系中发挥着中介作用。与城市居民相比，农民的幸福感对消费支出的促进作用更加明显。因此，努力提高农民收入多样化、加快农村信息通信技术基础设施建设，将在增进农民幸福感的同时，促进农民消费升级，推动农村经济的可持续发展。

Abstract

We use data from the 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) to examine the relationship between happiness and consumption expenditure of rural farmers in China. A two-stage residual inclusion approach is applied to tackle the potential endogeneity issue of happiness. The empirical results show that a higher level of happiness is associated with an increase in consumption expenditure in general. Further analysis reveals that higher levels of happiness are positively and significantly associated with higher expenditures on basic living goods, education and gifts. We also find that both household income and access to the internet boost happiness and increase consumption expenditure. Happiness plays a larger role in improving the consumption expenditure of rural households compared with their urban counterparts. Our findings may suggest that improving rural income via income diversification strategies and investing in rural information and communication technology infrastructures would encourage rural farmers’ happiness, promote the upgrading of rural consumption and boost sustainable economic growth.

原文链接（点击“阅读原文”跳转）：

http://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-020-09836-z

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