创业与主观幸福感——基于中国综合社会调查(CGSS)数据

Does Entrepreneurship Make People Happy?——the Microscopic Evidence from China

本文基于2011-2013年中国综合社会调查(CGSS)的混合截面数据,实证分析创业对创业者主观幸福感的影响。研究发现创业能够显著地提升创业者的主观幸福感,并且这种幸福感将随着创业动机、性别差异、创业地区和环境不同而变化。进一步研究发现创业带来的货币回报并没有直接带来创业者主观幸福感的提升,而创业带来的非货币回报如自主权和自我预期的提升才是创业者主观幸福感提升的主要原因。然而,创业也给创业者带来了负面影响,如休息不足、学习充电时间减少以及对社会不信任程度增加等。本文的研究结论将为政府制定更加合理完善的创业政策提供依据。

This paper indicates the formation of happiness is likely to be related to the entrepreneurship based on the Chinese general social survey data in 2011, 2012 and 2013, our empirical studies show that entrepreneurial behavior can significantly improve the happiness of entrepreneurs, moreover, this effect will vary with the entrepreneurial motivation, gender differences and the entrepreneurial environment. Further examination reveals that the monetary rewards of starting a business do not directly increase happiness,however, the nonmonetary rewards such as decision-making power and self-expectation are the main reasons for the increase of happiness,inaddition, there are also some negative effects of entrepreneurship.Entrepreneurship not only reduces the amount of time it takes for entrepreneurs to rest and study, but also increases the level of distrust in society. The research of this paper is helpful to understand the entrepreneurial effect more deeply and provides the basis for the government to make more entrepreneurship policy.