AOC: Migration and Well-Being of China's Rural Population

AOC：中国农村人口的迁移与福祉

• 批准号: 0527690
• 负责人: Arthur Kleinman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-15 至 2010-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0527690&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AOC; Migration; Well; Being; China

SBE-0527690Arthur KleinmanChi-Man Winnie YipHarvard University Rapid economic development and population movements have led to major economic, social and cultural transformations around the globe in the past few decades. Despite the profound impacts these transformations can have on the population's well-being, our knowledge on how to anticipate problems is limited. The existing economic literature on economic growth is mostly conducted at the macro level, which hides significant differential impacts across regions and individuals. Besides, most economic literature focuses on income, thus equating economic well-being with overall well-being. However, recent empirical studies show little relationship between income growth and measures of subjective well-being. More importantly, most existing studies are single-disciplined, which inhibits the examination of the complex and dynamic relationships among various economic, social and cultural forces that act independently and interactively to impact on the well-being of individuals. This interdisciplinary research project will examine rural to urban migration in China as an agent of change and how that affects a set of complex and dynamic relationships among many economic, social and cultural factors and their effects on the well-being of individuals. The research uses an integrative framework, with economic theory as a foundation to integrate relevant concepts and findings from other disciplines. This approach takes advantage of the analytical rigor and tractability of economic models plus the contributions of anthropology, sociology and psychology that help us to understand human behavior and social/individual interactions. An integrated conceptual framework allows for hypotheses-driven data collection and empirical testing, rather than ad hoc statistical associations. Methodologically, a major innovation is the integration of ethnographic studies and household surveys. The investigators will collect data through three methods: pre-survey ethnographic studies to inform the study on hypothesis formulation and design of culturally and socially sensitive survey instruments; household surveys to collect quantitative data; and post-survey ethnography to more fully explore survey findings and provide rich qualitative information for interpreting survey results. In addition, the study design takes advantage of the "natural experiment" created by China's entry into WTO (World Trade Organization) and the differential effect it has on various types of agricultural products and the regions that specialize in them. Broader Impact. The project will contribute to the training of a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers through the involvement of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in the planning, implementation, and data analysis phases. The longitudinal data collected as part of the study will also be made available for students, junior researchers and the larger public to conduct research on a number of dynamic relationships among economic, social, cultural changes in rural China and their consequences, and relationships with health and well-being.

SBE-0527690阿瑟·克莱因曼·齐曼温妮·叶哈佛大学在过去的几十年里，经济的快速发展和人口的流动导致了地球仪各地经济、社会和文化的重大变革。尽管这些转变可能对人民的福祉产生深远影响，但我们对如何预测问题的了解有限。现有关于经济增长的经济学文献大多是在宏观层面上进行的，这掩盖了地区和个人之间的显著差异影响。此外，大多数经济学文献侧重于收入，因此将经济福祉等同于总体福祉。然而，最近的实证研究表明，收入增长和主观幸福感的措施之间的关系不大。 更重要的是，大多数现有的研究都是单一学科的，这阻碍了对各种经济、社会和文化力量之间复杂和动态关系的研究，这些力量独立和相互作用，对个人的福祉产生影响。这个跨学科的研究项目将研究中国农村向城市的迁移作为一种变化的媒介，以及它如何影响许多经济，社会和文化因素之间的一系列复杂和动态关系及其对个人福祉的影响。 本研究采用综合性框架，以经济理论为基础，整合其他学科的相关概念和研究成果。这种方法利用了经济模型的分析严谨性和易处理性，以及人类学、社会学和心理学的贡献，帮助我们理解人类行为和社会/个人互动。 一个综合的概念框架允许基于假设的数据收集和实证检验，而不是临时的统计关联。在方法上，一项重大创新是将人种学研究与住户调查相结合。调查人员将通过三种方法收集数据：调查前人种学研究，为研究提供关于假设的制定和对文化和社会敏感的调查工具的设计的信息;住户调查，收集定量数据;调查后人种学研究，更充分地探讨调查结果，并为解释调查结果提供丰富的定性信息。此外，研究设计利用了中国加入WTO（世界贸易组织）所创造的“自然实验”及其对各种农产品和专业地区的差异化影响。更广泛的影响。该项目将通过让研究生和博士后研究员参与规划、实施和数据分析阶段，为培训新一代跨学科研究人员作出贡献。作为研究的一部分，收集的纵向数据也将提供给学生，初级研究人员和广大公众，以研究中国农村经济，社会，文化变化及其后果之间的动态关系，以及与健康和福祉的关系。