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Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China.
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This paper may be the first to link the literatures on migration and on subjective well-being in developing countries. It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score lower than that of rural households? Three basic hypotheses are examined: migrants had false expectations about their future urban conditions, or about their future urban aspirations, or about their future selves. Estimated happiness functions and decomposition ...
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- World Development
- Volume:
- 38
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 113 - 124
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0305-750X
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:1361
- Deposit date:
- 2011-08-15
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- 2010
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