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The Relationship Between the Gender Gap in Subjective Well-Being and Leisure Activities in China

verfasst von: Dong Zhou, Langchuan Peng

Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies | Ausgabe 7/2018

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This study explains the observed gender gap in subjective well-being (SWB) in China using heterogeneous marginal utility derived from leisure hours. We find that women in China exhibit higher levels of well-being than men and that there is a conditional unexplained gender gap in SWB ranging between 0.15 and 0.17. This conditional gap can be partly (30–40%) explained by the gender difference in the marginal utility of leisure hours. Meanwhile, we find a strong negative effect of hours spent on housework. These findings are robust to a variety of model specifications and subsamples.

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Titel: The Relationship Between the Gender Gap in Subjective Well-Being and Leisure Activities in China
verfasst von: Dong Zhou
Langchuan Peng
Publikationsdatum: 19.08.2017
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Happiness Studies / Ausgabe 7/2018
Print ISSN: 1389-4978
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-017-9913-7

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