China's life satisfaction, 1990-2010
China's life satisfaction, 1990-2010
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1205672109
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发表时间：
2012-06-19
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Wang, Fei
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作者：
Easterlin, Richard A.;Morgan, Robson;Wang, Fei
尽管在过去的二十年里，中国的人均产出实现了前所未有的增长，但中国基本上遵循了中东欧转型国家的生活满意度轨迹--一个U形摆动和零或下降的趋势。没有证据表明，人均消费水平提高了四倍，生活满意度的提高幅度达到了预期的程度。与欧洲国家一样，中国的趋势和U型模式似乎与失业率明显上升，随后略有下降，社会安全网沿着解体，收入不平等加剧有关。在中国，生活满意度下降的负担主要落在了社会经济地位最低的群体身上。最初高度平等的生活满意度分布已被越来越不平等的分布所取代，收入分布最底层三分之一的人的生活满意度下降，而收入分布最顶层三分之一的人的生活满意度上升。
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life satisfaction trajectory of the central and eastern European transition countries-a U-shaped swing and a nil or declining trend. There is no evidence of an increase in life satisfaction of the magnitude that might have been expected to result from the fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend and U-shaped pattern appear to be related to a pronounced rise in unemployment followed by a mild decline, and an accompanying dissolution of the social safety net along with growing income inequality. The burden of worsening life satisfaction in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life satisfaction has been replaced by an increasingly unequal one, with decreasing life satisfaction in persons in the bottom third of the income distribution and increasing life satisfaction in those in the top third.