ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Higher Education, Happiness, and Residents' Health.
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- The impact of education on subjective well-being: a meta-analysis based on 59 empirical studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Does higher education shape change in happiness during the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from working-age adults in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The impact of digital inclusive finance on medical and health service expenditures in urban and rural areas of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- The influence of higher education based on machine learning on subjective well-being.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Associations of depressive symptoms and social dysfunction with happiness in adults with cardiovascular disease: a cross-sectional study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- A study on the factors influencing the utilization of public health services by China's migrant population based on the Shapley value method.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Happiness and Socio-Demographic Factors in an Italian Sample: A Propensity-Matched Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The Effect of Perceived Stress, Family Companionship, and Mental Health on the Subjective Happiness of Chinese Healthcare Workers: A Mixed Research Method.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Measuring Happiness in Adolescent Samples: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Influence of college education on happiness: A quasi-experimental study based on higher education expansion in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Adult Subjective Wellbeing: The Role of Hope and Sense of Control.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Education, Income, and Happiness: Evidence From China.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The study proposes a new mechanism by which higher education affects the health of residents, showing that higher education can first improve the happiness of residents and then improve their health. In this research, we employ the data collected in Chinese General Social Survey in 2013 and adopt the semiparametric estimation methodology of ordered probit model. Our main findings include the following. First, compared with the residents without higher education, residents with high education enjoy better health conditions, and residents' happiness also significantly affects their health conditions. Second, higher education may have a long-term impact on residents' health by affecting their happiness. Third, the results of grouping test demonstrate that, with the increase in age, the influence of residents' happiness on health is more pronounced, but the mechanism of higher education to improve health status by improving residents' happiness becomes unobvious. Furthermore, we adopt the Shapley value decomposition methodology to decompose the effects of various factors on residents' health. We find that with the increase in age, happiness contributes more and more to residents' health conditions.
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