自由时间、收入与幸福感——基于中国家庭追踪调查数据的经验分析

Free Time,Income and Sense of Happiness:Evidence from Chinese Family Panel Studies

在对时间、收入与幸福感进行理论分析的基础上,利用中国家庭追踪调查数据研究中国家庭时间、收入与个体主观幸福感之间的关系,并使用生活满意度法估计时间自由的货币价值,结果表明:对于全部家庭来讲,自由时间、收入的增加均能够增加个体的主观幸福感,且这种正向影响的显著程度比较强;自由时间每增加1个百分点带来的主观幸福感的增加相当于个体当月总收入增加5.89个百分点。这一结论蕴含的政策含义是:以人的发展为最终目的的经济发展既要着眼于提高个体收入,又要通过改革来增加自由时间以提升人们的幸福感。

Based on a theoretical analysis of time,income and sense of happiness and evidence from Chinese family panel studies,this paper makes a research on the relationship among free time,income and individual subjective sense of happiness of the Chinese family,and estimates the value of money in time freedom by means of life satisfaction method. The results show that time freedom and income have a significant positive effect on the individual subjective sense of happiness for all families.The happiness induced by income increasing 5. 89% is equivalent to the happiness induced by time freedom increasing 1% per month. Its implication is that the ultimate goal of economic development centered-on the development of human should not only focus on improving income,but also increase the free time to enhance people＇s sense of happiness through reform.