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Money-Helping Behavior Effects on Subjective Wellbeing Distinguished by Dissimilar Interpersonal Relations: Empirical Evidence from China
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| Abstract | This study uses China Family Panel Study (CFPS) data to examine of money-helping behavior effects on helpersʼ subjective well-being. We group recipients based on different interpersonal relations to a...nalyze how a helperʼs helping behavior affects their happiness and life satisfaction when facing recipients from dissimilar social relation groups. Additionally, we introduce a set of control variables related to subjective feelings of trust in the model to avoid endogeneity caused by individual characteristics. We also compare the regression results of happiness and life satisfaction as a robustness check. Furthermore, we evaluate socioeconomic factors such as helper income, age and education. Results demonstrate that Chinese people feel unhappier when providing financial support to strangers, friends, colleagues, and even parents, which differs from other helping behavior studies. However, giving money to children provides marked improvement of parentsʼ subjective well-being in all socioeconomic categories. Besides, women report slightly higher scores of both happiness and life satisfaction from helping their children than menshow more |
| Table of Contents | １ Introduction ２ Literature review ３ Data and model ４ Empirical results |
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| Created Date | 2021.08.05 |
| Modified Date | 2021.08.05 |