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| Hang Fang, Ting Yu, Michael S Delgado and Qianheng Qian |
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| ''Infectious happiness in heterogeneous social networks: evidence from rural China'' |
| ( 2024, Vol. 44 No.3 ) |
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| We investigate infectious effects in happiness using a novel panel of data from a village in China. We construct a complete and heterogeneous social network that includes all households, and use spatial econometric models to estimate the infectious effect. We find that both infectious and contextual effects within social networks are significant for household happiness. Household happiness is not positively influenced by the happiness of the household's closest family, but rather by others from the social network who are not particularly close to the household. We also provide evidence for envy effects between the closest families. |
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| Keywords: Happiness, Infectious Effects, Social Network, China |
JEL: D9 - Intertemporal Choice and Growth: General
Z1 - Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General |
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| Manuscript Received : Aug 21 2024 | | Manuscript Accepted : Sep 30 2024 |
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