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Home ownership and life satisfaction of migrants in urban China

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  • Jennifer Te Lai
  • Mengqian Ye
  • Hao Zhang

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This article investigates the impact of homeownership on life satisfaction for urban migrants in China. By utilizing three waves of the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey data from 2012 to 2016, we find that homeownership has a positive and significant effect on life satisfaction of urban migrants. This effect remains robust with different model specifications. In addition, this effect is mainly concentrated in those aged above 38, or at the top quartile of income distribution among migrants, or residing in the east coastal region. We also show that the positive effect of homeownership remains when the possibility of its endogeneity is tackled by instrumental variable estimation.

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  • Jennifer Te Lai & Mengqian Ye & Hao Zhang, 2021. "Home ownership and life satisfaction of migrants in urban China," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(4), pages 287-293, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:28:y:2021:i:4:p:287-293
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1752359
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    1. Junpeng Li & Puneet Vatsa & Wanglin Ma, 2023. "Small Acts With Big Impacts: Does Garbage Classification Improve Subjective Well-Being in Rural China?," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 18(3), pages 1337-1363, June.

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