配偶收入如何影响自身生活幸福感？--基于中国综合社会调查(2006)的实证分析

How A Spouse's Income Influences One's Own Happiness?——An Empirical Analysis Based on China General Social Survey(2006)

本文从理论上梳理了配偶收入影响自身幸福感的两种影响渠道:经济支持渠道和收入比较渠道。通过这两种渠道,配偶收入对自身幸福感分别产生正效应和负效应,综合影响取决于这两种效应的相对大小。进而,基于中国综合社会调查(2006)的微观数据,我们采用有序Probit模型进行了经验分析。研究发现,第一,配偶收入和自己的收入均对自身"潜在幸福感"有显著的正向影响,但配偶收入的影响程度小于自己的收入。这表明,就对幸福感的影响而言,自己的收入和配偶的收入并不完全是同质的。第二,对年龄较大的群体和高收入群体,配偶收入的正向影响不显著,而对年龄较小的群体和低收入群体,配偶收入的正向影响则是显著的。这表明,人们在不同经济体制下接受的价值观念以及自身收入水平的高低是配偶收入影响自身幸福感的调节变量。

In this paper, we consider that there are financial support channel and income comparison channel, through which a spouse＇s income has positive and negative effect on one＇s own happiness separately. The final effect is due to the relative magnitude of the two effects. Based on the micro data from China General Social Survey （2006）, we conduct an empirical analysis using Ordered Probit Model. We find that both a spouse＇s income and one＇s own income have significant- ly positive effect on one＇s own happiness. As to the magnitude, the latter is stronger than the former. This shows that for the effect of income on happiness, income of one＇s own and one＇s spouse is not homogeneous. For the older and the richer, the positive effect is not significant, but for the younger and the poorer, the positive effect is significant. This shows that one＇s values and attitudes and one＇s income level play the role of mediator and moderator. Robustness tests support our conclu- sions further