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Dodec, I'd like to ask you a question. Are you really ready to change your perspective this radically? I ask because I'm not sure I am.
Chaol has stated it's good to do something different from our usual, to broaden our perspective. I also wonder if we will need this kind of money for whatever takes place in 2013?
Yea, I'm ready.
The irony is, that the implications of succeeding would make that money worthless. Quantum physics and psychology have shown our perspective to be a very limited and likely illusory one.
Succeeding with the genius with such a large amount, which would be very out of perspective otherwise, would be enough to convince many people that the system is real.
If it is real and people can that easily effect their reality, I'm sure someone would use it to expand their perspective and thus make our very way of living and it's likely illusions obsolete. You yourself would set up a consciousness center if you had enough money generated from the genius.
So it is a game, be open minded and open to possibility, to succeed is to crack the code and open up limitless potential bound only by imagination. It is worth exploring whether a futile effort, a prank, or something deeply incredible. It's still more fun than watching some men run around a ball and smash into each other.
Remember to succeed means to be closer to the truth, sure sometimes the truth can be difficult, but I believe it is always a noble quest. Change can be hard, and sometimes it can mean giving something up, but sometimes you need to let go of what holds you back to discover what's even greater waiting beyond it.
Remember the law of relationships. Nothing exists without interactions. If there were only good things, certain good things would start to be perceived as bad things. Otherwise good wouldn't exist. That's why you'll soon witness some Christmas tweets about not getting the newest phone or a new car when other people in the world show more appreciation than these people ever would for just a piece of bread.
So live in the moment, appreciate everything for what it is. If it turns out bad, know that it is an experience which will make a future one all the better. Enjoy life to it's fullest because all you have is the present.
What you have is choice. And if you do what you did you will get what you got. If the future and everything all ready exists, then live for this very moment. Because in every moment can make decisions, and in that moment you can do anything that you want to do.
"We Have nothing to fear except fear itself"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Thanks. This is good advice.
I have considered I can screw up the Genius and stop the ball rolling, so your comment that I have choice is a great reminder. ;o)
If I didn't know Chaol and this group, I wouldn't be as apprehensive about it. I just want the time to be here, do what I need to do and not taking care of that kind of thing. Btw, if you find a great attorney, etc:., let me know, LOL!
I guess I'll do a Genius for the help I'll need, but I'm not sure how to get somebody from Chaol's world or someone trying to get there! Any ideas about that?
The real irony for me in this whole thing, is talking with Chaol, is just like talking with my husband. Although there are some great improvements, LOL! When Chaol posted how hard is it for him to order at Denny's, I thought I'd croak. This is so familiar!
And now, Chaol is leaving, just as my husband also left...although with great improvements too! So very strange to me...like I said in an earlier post....it seems a Giant Genius plan has been in effect my entire life. (I already heard you Jesse....it's perspective, the crumbs I left for myself! ;o) So, my perspective is it's still strange!)
Edit: Tried twice to get your quote in aquamarine. The html is there but not taking!
Btw, Dodec, when your company gets to a certain point, you oughta sell it for billions. (think YT) So, I'm not sure how to create your Genius for it, but that's what I would do. I know money will be worthless at some point, just not sure when.
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John Knight, Lina Song and Ramani Gunatilaka
Number 334
June 2007
Manor Road Building, Oxford OX1 3UQ
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Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China
John Knight, Lina Song and Ramani Gunatilaka
June 27, 2007
Department of Economics
Manor Road Building
University of Oxford
Oxford OX1 3UQ
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Nottingham
Nottingham NG7 2RD
The research was supported by the UK ESRC-funded Global Poverty Research Group, which
funded the subjective well-being module in the questionnaire for the rural sample of the China
Household Survey, relating to 2002, of the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences; and from a grant made by the Nuffield Foundation for analysis of the survey.
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Abstract. A national household survey for 2002, containing a specially designed module on
subjective well-being, is used to estimate pioneering happiness functions in rural China. The
variables predicted by economic theory to be important for happiness are relatively unimportant.
The analysis suggests that we need to draw on psychology and sociology if we are to understand.
Rural China is not a hotbed of dissatisfaction with life, possibly because most people are found
to confine their reference groups to the village. Relative income within the village and relative
income over time, both in the past and expected in the future, are shown to influence happiness.
'Subjective well-being poverty' functions are estimated, in which income and various proxies for
'capabilities' and 'functionings' appear as arguments. Even amidst the poverty of rural China,
social functionings, attitudes and expectations are important to subjective well-being.
Key words. Happiness; subjective well-being; aspirations; relative deprivation; reference groups;
poverty; China
JEL numbers. I 31
Corresponding author: John Knight
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1. Introduction
Why do rural-dwellers in China appear to be relatively happy despite their poverty and lowly
socioeconomic status? That is the basic question which we pose in this paper. The Chinese
economy is characterised by a remarkable rural-urban divide (Knight and Song, 1999). It takes
the form of a great rural-urban disparity in mean incomes and in the provision of such services as
education, health and pensions. Despite the economic reforms and the marketisation of the
economy - forces which tended to break down the invisible 'Great Wall' between rural and urban
China - the ratio of mean incomes has risen, and in 2002 reached a peak of 3.2 to 1. Rural
incomes have risen rapidly in real terms in recent years (for instance, by 5.4 per cent per annum
between 1990 and 2002), and rural income poverty has been sharply reduced. Nevertheless, the
faster growth of urban incomes (by 7.5 per cent per annum over the same period) and the
extension of peasant horizons through the media and increased temporary migration may have
generated a sense of relative deprivation among rural people.1 Yet, as we shall see, over 60% of
rural people report themselves to be 'happy' or 'very happy'. We propose to explore the
determinants of subjective well-being in rural China
The analysis of 'subjective well-being', also referred to as 'satisfaction with life' or 'happiness',
is a relatively new but rapidly growing topic for economists. Literature surveys have begun to
appear, including Frey and Stutzer (2002, 2003) and Layard (2003, 2005). Although economists
normally regard perceptions as suspect and want agents' preferences to be revealed by actions
rather than to be reported, the literature surveys are upbeat and optimistic. Thus Frey and Stutzer
(2002: 431) conclude that '…happiness research is not a futile or eccentric activity but rather can
provide relevant new insights …' and, according to Layard (2003) '…the scientific study of
happiness is only just beginning. It should become a central topic in social science.' Very little of
the economic research on subjective well-being has so far been on poor countries. The
exceptions include Ravallion and Lokshin (2001, 2002) on Russia, Kingdon and Knight (2006,
2007) on South Africa, and Graham and Pettinato (2002) on Peru and Russia. We are not aware
of research on subjective well-being in rural China. There is thus great scope for advancing
1 The statistics above are derived from PRC, NBS 2004: 323, 355; PRC, NBS: 324.
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The paper is arranged as follows. Section 2 briefly describes the rural survey and the variables to
be used. It also provides some descriptive evidence, so defining the parameters within which to
develop the hypotheses. Section 3 sets out the main questions to be asked and hypotheses to be
tested. Section 4 presents the empirical results. Section 5 develops the notion of 'subjective well-
being poverty' and compares it with other measures of poverty. Section 6 draws specific and
general conclusions.
2. Data and methods
Our opportunity is provided by the 2002 national household survey organised by the Institute of
Economics, Chinese Academy of Social sciences (IE, CASS) for the research programme on
income distribution in China, involving IE, CASS and foreign scholars including two of the
authors. Any economic analysis of subjective well-being requires detailed socio-economic
information on households and their individual members, as well as specific well-being
questions. The extensive rural household questionnaire contains a subjective well-being module,
designed by the authors, which was intended to improve on the questionnaires currently used in
well-being research and had specific hypotheses in mind.
The rural sample of the 2002 national household survey is drawn from a representative sub-
sample of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) nationally representative sample for its annual
national household survey. Our sample covers 22 provinces. Within each province on average
5.5 counties are sampled, and within each county on average 7.9 villages, each containing 10
observation households. In addition to taking information directly from the logbooks for each
house compiled by the NBS, further information was gathered for each household, using the
usual NBS interviewers.
We provide some descriptive statistics on subjective well-being which will help us to formulate
the hypotheses to be tested. About 9,200 households responded to the subjective well-being
questions.2 There are at least three possible measures of subjective well-being in the data set,
varying according to the extent to which their context is an economic one: happiness, satisfaction
2 The household head or its main member present was asked the questions; the respondent is identified.
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with living conditions, and satisfaction with household income. The three measures are
compared in Knight and Gunatilaka (2007). Here we concentrate on the measure most generally
used in the literature – normally referred to as happiness or satisfaction with life. The distribution
of responses is shown in Table 1. The proportion of respondents opting for the highest two of
five possible levels of subjective well-being is no less than 62 % and the proportion reporting the
lowest two only 9 %. Rural China does not appear to be hotbed of dissatisfaction with life.
There is variation across the quintiles of income per capita: whereas 49 % in the lowest quintile
are happy or very happy, the figure for the highest quintile is 73 %, and the corresponding
proportions in the cases of those unhappy or not happy at all are 16 and 4 % respectively. When
the categories of happiness are converted into cardinal values (ranging from a score of 4 for very
happy down to 0 for not at all happy), the mean score (2.67 for the sample as a whole) rises
monotonically from 2.41 in the lowest to 2.89 in the highest quintile. However, the standard
deviation of the score (0.87) is large in relation to the mean, and much greater than the range of
quintile scores (0.48). There is much more to subjective well-being than absolute household
income per capita.
In contrast to this result, we also find that income is important to those who rate their subjective
well-being low. Respondents reporting being unhappy or not at all happy were asked the reason.
Table 2 shows that low income was their predominant concern, accounting for 64 % of cases. A
possible solution to this apparent contradiction is that relative income is important for subjective
well-being. People might compare themselves, or their income, either with themselves in the past
or with 'relevant others', i.e. their social reference groups.
Respondents were asked to compare their current living standard with their standard five years
ago. Table 3 shows that 61 % of them now had a higher living standard and that only 5 % had
become worse off. It also shows that, among those currently better off, 72 % were happy or very
happy, among those at the same level the corresponding figure was 47 %, and among those
worse off it was 36 %. The mean happiness scores were 2.88, 2.39, and 2.09 respectively. People
apparently feel relative deprivation by comparison with their past.
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Respondents were also classified according to their answers to the question: is your current
living standard much below average, below average, average, above average, or much above
average for your village? Table 4 shows a symmetrical distribution around the average, but with
the majority (57 %) regarding their living standard as being average. The proportion reporting
that they are happy or very happy rises monotonically with relative living standard, from 18 % in
the lowest category to 83 % in the highest. The mean happiness score also rises monotonically,
from 1.50 to 3.16. It appears that people experience relative deprivation by comparison with
others in their village.
It is an innovation of this data set that interviewees were asked about the people with whom they
made comparisons. Table 5 presents the proportions reporting each possible main comparator
group, and shows how this varies by level of happiness. Most respondents (68 %) make
comparisons with their neighbours or fellow-villagers; a mere 11 % have their main orbit of
comparison beyond the village. There is only a weak association with reported level of
happiness. However, whereas 40 % of the very happy compare with their neighbours or relatives,
only 19 % of the very unhappy do so; the corresponding figures for fellow-villagers are 37 and
52 % respectively, and for comparisons beyond the village 11 and 15 % respectively. Wider
orbits of comparison are associated with unhappiness.
Our basic method is to estimate subjective well-being (that is, happiness) functions, either of the
Wi = a + Xi b + ui
where Wi is a cardinal measure of well-being and Xi is a vector of explanatory variables, or of
the form
Wi* = a + Xi b + ui
where Wi* is a latent variable and what is observed is different categories of an ordered
categorical variable. Eq. (1) is estimated by OLS and eq. (2) using an ordered probit estimator.
In a methodological paper, Ferrer-I-Carbonnel and Frijters (2004) examine the robustness of the
literature findings on the determinants of happiness. There are two main issues: whether to treat
reported happiness levels as cardinal (as psychologists generally do) or ordinal (as economists
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generally do); and the influence of the unobserved determinants of happiness. The former issue
boils down to whether it is possible to use OLS regression methods (if cardinal) or necessary to
use latent variable methods (if ordinal).The latter issue can be dealt with by using panel data, so
eliminating the influence of unobserved time-invariant individual fixed effects. The two issues
are related, however, because the estimation of ordered probits when standardising for fixed
effects yields inconsistent estimates (Maddala, 1983).
Using a particular household survey (the German national panel), the authors find that the results
are not sensitive to the choice between OLS and latent variable methods. However, they are
sensitive to standardisation for individual fixed effects in this data set which lacks variables
representing personality traits. For example, standardisation tends to reduce the size of the
positive coefficients on income, health, and marriage. The general implications are that having a
personality which is conducive to happiness is also associated with having high income, being
healthy, and being married; and that reliable research results require either a panel data set, or
good instruments for the endogenous variables, or explanatory variables that measure the effects
of personality traits. The specific implications for this paper, given that we lack panel
information on happiness over time, are that we should attempt to include variables that proxy
personality traits, and that we should attempt to instrument the worrisome variables, in particular
3. Questions and hypotheses
The descriptive results of Section 2 and evidence from the happiness literature provide the best
compass in these uncharted waters. The main findings from the general literature on the
estimation of happiness functions are as follows. First, happiness increases with absolute income,
ceteris paribus (Frey and Stutzer, 2002). Moreover, differences in income explain only a small
proportion of the variation in happiness among people. Cross-country studies suggest that the
relationship between income and happiness becomes weaker as income per capita rises. This is
consistent with the argument that happiness depends in part on the gratification of certain basic
biological needs and in part on the gratification of various social needs that are moulded by
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The limited role of absolute income is further suggested by the fact that income and happiness
are positively related in cross-section but not in time-series studies. For instance, in the United
States and Japan, real income per capita increased over time but the mean happiness score
remained constant. It is possible that mean happiness failed to rise over time because aspiration
levels adjusted to, and so rose along with, mean incomes in the society, and happiness varied
positively with income and negatively with aspirations (Easterlin, 1974, 2001). A variant on the
notion that relative income influences happiness stems from the long established literature on
relative deprivation. People feel deprived if they are doing less well than their comparators. A
person's position in the income distribution of the relevant reference group may thus govern
happiness. This raises the questions: what comparisons do people make; how wide are the orbits
of comparison? Duesenberry (1949) stressed own previous income or consumption as the frame
of reference. Runciman (1966) suggested informational and social reasons why the frame of
reference can be narrow. The second main finding, therefore, is that happiness depends on
relative income, defined by the reference group or the reference time that people have in mind.
However, it is not necessarily the case that the income of the reference group has a negative
effect on happiness. Knight and Kingdon (2007) find a positive effect for the income per capita
of the small local residential community that, after tests, they interpret as the result of altruism,
fellow-feeling and a sense of community.
Absolute and relative income are not the only determinants of happiness. Being unemployed is
found to reduce happiness independently of its effects on income (Clark and Oswald, 1994;
Winkelmann and Winkelmann, 1998). The general unemployment rate also has a depressing
effect, suggesting that having a higher risk of becoming unemployed, reflecting economic
insecurity, reduces happiness. Subjective well-being is also influenced by several factors that are
non-economic or potentially so, such as age, sex, marital status, health status, education, social
capital, religion, and social and political institutions (Helliwell, 2002).
Drawing on the literature and on the descriptive evidence of the survey, we pose the following
questions. First, do the personal characteristics that are found to influence happiness around the
world have the same effects in China? Second, do the variables predicted by economic theory to
govern happiness – such as income, wealth and hours of work – behave as expected? Third, are
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comparative concepts – such as income relative to others in the village or to other times –
important to happiness, and if so what roles are played by reference groups and by aspirations?
Fourth, do variables relating to the community – such as public services, the 'social wage', and
the environment – play their expected role? Fifth, do attitudes have an independent effect on
happiness? Sixth, can 'subjective well-being poverty' serve as an encompassing notion of
poverty, to be explained by two other criteria for poverty: income, and the 'capabilities' to be
and to do things of intrinsic worth? The answers to these questions will be related to three
underlying issues. One: how can the generally high levels of reported happiness be explained?
Two: are the changes that are occurring in rural society likely to raise or lower happiness? Three:
does the analysis carry policy implications?
4. Happiness functions
Table 6 presents OLS equations estimating the determinants of happiness. The first column
provides mean values, eqs. 1 and 2 show the basic equation containing some of the variables that
are commonly used in happiness functions, and eqs. 3 and 4 show the full equation which was
arrived at by a process of experimentation to establish which of the potentially interesting
variables have robustly significant coefficients. Eqs. 2 and 4 contain a set of province dummy
variables, so showing the relationships that hold within provinces. We examine the determinants
of happiness under five headings: basic variables, conventional economic variables, comparison
variables, community variables, and attitudinal variables. Although imperfect, this categorization
helps us to develop a systematic argument. The strength and plausibility of many of the
estimated relationships bolsters our confidence in the methodology.
The discussion of Table 6 is supplemented by drawing on Tables 7, 8 and 9. These show the
results obtained by estimating the same full equations (corresponding to eq. 3) for sub-samples:
the different household, and the different province, income per capita terciles in Table 7;
separately for men and women in Table 8; and for those whose reference group in within and
beyond the village in Table 9. We report only the variables for which there are notable sub-
sample differences in their coefficients that are used in the discussion. These sub-sample results
are either interesting in their own right or because they assist the interpretation of the results of
Table 6.
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4.1 Basic variables
We begin with some basic variables that appear in almost all happiness functions around the
world. Both age (negative) and age squared (positive) have generally significant coefficients.
The implied U-shaped relationship of happiness with age has its lowest point in the age-range 30
(eq.1) to 38 (eq. 4). Men report lower happiness than women. With single status as the reference
category, marriage is relatively blissful in rural China, although the coefficient is not
significantly positive in the full equations; by contrast, divorce and widowhood reduce
happiness. It is interesting that the coefficients on divorce and widowhood are largest for the
poorest tercile of households, and only in this tercile are the coefficients significant (Table 7).
The good health of the respondent raises happiness substantially: even when a full set of
explanatory variables is included, having good health (rather than health that is reported to be so-
so or poor) raises the score by 0.27 points. These results for age, gender, marital status and health
are found in almost all happiness studies, and this gives our study credence.
The significantly positive effect of education in the basic equation is not robust to the addition of
other variables, in particular the attitudinal variables. This suggests that education has its
independent effect by moulding attitudes; of course, it also has an indirect effect by raising
income. The dummy variable denoting that a person is from an ethnic minority is significantly
positive. We have a variable denoting the current mood of the respondent. Being in a good
(instead of a normal or worse than normal) mood has a large positive effect, of at least 0.35
points. Other happiness studies do not condition on mood: its effect then has to be picked up as
noise in the error term.
4.2 Conventional economic variables
Ln income per capita has a significantly positive effect on happiness in every equation, although
the effect is weakened when the full set of variables, including the comparison variables, is
included. In the basic equation, a doubling of income per capita raises the happiness score by
0.13 points, and the effect is still weaker in the other equations. It is interesting that the
coefficient is significantly positive only for men (Table 8): men appear to be more materialistic
than women. Testing the hypothesis that additional income contributes less to happiness as
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income rises, we looked for a non-linear relationship by adding the square of the income
variable. However, in no case was the coefficient on the squared term significantly different from
zero (equations not shown).
Net financial assets also raise happiness significantly, but only a little. However, their effect is
greatest, and most significant, in the lowest income per capita tercile of both households and
provinces, suggesting that they are most valued in conditions of poverty. As expected, the
number of hours worked enters with a significantly negative coefficient. However, the
coefficient is most negative for the poorest tercile of households, and only in this tercile is it
significantly different from zero. Open unemployment – not a common state in rural China – is
negative in its effect but generally not significantly so. None of the conventional economic
variables is important in the determination of happiness.
4.3 Comparison variables
We introduce various forms of income comparison, both temporal and spatial, to consider
whether happiness is influenced by peoples' aspirations, as set by their reference groups.
Respondents were asked to compare their household income with that of other households in the
village. The effect on happiness is in all cases not only statistically significant but also powerful
and monotonic. For instance, in eq. 3 we see that having income 'much above average' increases
the happiness score by 0.21, and 'above average' by 0.11; having income 'below average'
decreases the score by 0.27 and 'much below average' by 0.80. In particular it is the poor of the
village who suffer as a result of making intra-village comparisons. Given that household income
per capita is already being controlled for, and that villages differ greatly in their average income
(the coefficient of variation of village mean income being 57 per cent), these results imply a
relative income effect rather than an absolute income effect. They suggest that the poor
households of the village, in particular, experience relative deprivation. There is a narrower
range of coefficients for those with extra-village (0.95) than for those with intra-village (1.06)
reference groups (Table 9): relative income within the village is less important for the former
Easterlin (2001) has argued that happiness is a positive function of income and a negative
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function of aspirations. Moreover, aspirations tend to be governed by the standards and norms of
the community. This makes a person's relative position in the community important to his or her
happiness. Thus, aspirations adjust to the income of the community, so creating a 'hedonic
treadmill' which makes happiness insensitive to absolute income while being sensitive to relative
income. Our estimated coefficients on the absolute and relative income variables are consistent
with this interpretation.
Compared with those whose living standards have not altered over the last five years, those who
report an increase have a rise in happiness score, ceteris paribus, of 0.20, and those who report a
decrease have a fall of 0.15 points. Although the effect of an improvement in living standards is
uniform across the income terciles, the effect on happiness of a deterioration is worst for the
poorest tercile of households, and also of provinces (Table 7). A worsening of living standards is
most difficult to bear in conditions of poverty. Similarly, compared with static expectations,
those who expect a big increase over the next five years have a rise in score of 0.20, those who
expect a small increase a rise of 0.11, and those who expect a decrease a fall of 0.09 points.
Averaging the four coefficients, the mean for those with their reference group beyond the village
is -0.07, but for those with their reference group within the village it is +0.09 (Table 9). The
contrast is consistent with the former's aspirations having been raised, relative to their current
income, by the higher income of their wider reference group. In summary, the results provide
some support for the argument that peoples' happiness is sensitive to past or expected future
improvement or deterioration in their income, whatever their current income level.
Our evidence on the effects of non-current income is consistent with some research results in
social psychology. It is found that people tend to evaluate their past, current and future income
by reference to their current aspirations: it is easier for people to recall or project their income
than to recall or project their aspirations (Easterlin, 2001, Kahneman and Snell, 1992, Rabin,
1998). It is also possible that people, in considering their past, or their future, income, do not
consider the changes in the income of their reference groups that accompanied these changes, or
are likely to do so. Through either of these mechanisms, happiness is made more sensitive to
income at another time than it is to current income. It is true that our results with regard to future
income are consistent with a conventional economic interpretation in terms of inter-temporal
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utility maximization, i.e. happiness is positively related to 'permanent income' which is a
positive function of expected future income. However, the results for past income cannot bear
such an interpretation insofar as low income five years ago reduces permanent income.
It is interesting that the happiness scores of women are less sensitive to having household income
much above the village average but more sensitive to expecting a big increase in income over the
next five years (Table 8). There appears to be some gender difference in the way in which
aspirations are formed. Men might set their aspirations competitively, basing them more in
relation to other people, whereas women might set their aspirations internally, basing them more
in relation to other times.
We introduced a dummy variable denoting that the respondent had lived outside the township for
at least a year. Such an experience – often involving rural-urban migration – was likely to
broaden a person's reference group, and the broader reference group would probably have higher
income and living standards than were to be found in the village or township. The hypothesis is
therefore that migration raises aspirations, and so the dummy variable has a negative sign. The
coefficient is indeed negative in both eqs.3 and 4, but not significantly so. However, in the
equation with income instrumented (Table 11), and again in the probit equations (Table 10), the
coefficient is consistently negative and significant. The comparison of those with reference
groups within and beyond the village provides clarification: the coefficient is significantly
negative only for those whose horizons have indeed been widened (Table 10).
One comparator variable produced a surprising result. Although we know that most people have
their reference group within the village, we were curious to discover whether a greater degree of
income inequality in the county (having an average population of about half a million people)
would reduce happiness. However, because the average sample size (about 80 households) is
probably too low accurately to represent inequality within a county, we were prepared for an
insignificant result. We were not prepared for the positive and significant effect of the county
Gini coefficient reported in eq. 3. Although the within-province estimate is much smaller and not
significant (eq. 4), the result deserves an attempt at explanation. High income inequality within a
county need not give rise not to feelings of relative deprivation – people's orbits of comparison
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are too narrow for that. Instead, higher inequality might serve as a proxy for greater
diversification in the county, in turn raising the prospect of greater opportunities for economic
benefit. This 'demonstration effect' can occur at the individual level (e.g. by offering
employment possibilities) or at the village level (e.g. knowledge that other villages have
launched themselves into successful development can raise expectations of the successful
development of one's own village). Hirschman's analogy of two lanes of cars stuck in a tunnel
describes this phenomenon well (Hirschman, 1973). The effect appears to be most powerful in
the poorest third of provinces (Table 8) and more powerful for men than for women (Table 8).
The coefficient is twice as high for those whose reference group is beyond the village than for
those whose reference group is within it (Table 9): those with wider horizons experience a
stronger demonstration effect.
4.4 Community variables
When a full set of province dummies is introduced, with Beijing as the omitted category (eq. 4),
several of the coefficients are extremely large. Only Hebei, Liaoning, Shandong and Xinjiang
have happiness scores that are not significantly different from Beijing's. All the others have
significantly lower happiness, with Guanxi, Yunnan, Shaanxi and Guangdong doing worst.
These differences are to some extent related to province income, because the coefficient on
province mean rural income per capita - replacing the province dummies of eq.4 (equation not
reported) is 0.12, significant at the one per cent level. The coefficient is largest for the poorest
third of households and of provinces, and lowest for the richest third (Table 7). The positive
association might reflect the extent of government funding of public services and infrastructure
for rural people, in which the poorest households and households in the poorest provinces gain
most. Nevertheless, one may ask whether there are other, unobserved, province characteristics,
such as environment, culture, and quality of governance, which also help to explain these
province differences.
Certain variables which do, or might, contain a public goods or a social wage element were
found to have significant coefficients with the expected sign. These include the possession of a
phone, the expression of satisfaction with the village clinic, and the view that its spokesman
represents the interests of the village. The first two variables have their strongest effect in the


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Same as another country such as Japan, the government of Japan applies Goho-wood or green Konjuho which requires that timber imported into the country comes from legal sourses. The government of the United States of America amanded the Lacey Act, aimed at avoiding import of illegal timber into the country. The European Union issued timber regulation No. 995/2010 obliging operator to possess irrefutable proofs that timber product that they trade don't come from illegal sources and prohibiting illegal timber.
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My fabricator does a standard 1/8" radius which I believe is referred to here as an eased edge; anything else is an upcharge. And, I am pretty much getting the line from the fabricator that since soapstone is a softer stone, this is the preferred edge so nicks and chips won't happen. But, I am getting the Green Mountain original PA which I understand is a harder variety. They are planning to make the corners quite round for me though. I am willing to pay more for the upgraded edging if it really makes a distinct difference in the overall look and feel of the kitchen.
I know I don't want anything fancy like an ogee, but I am debating whether this standard edge is too sharp and crisp (and perhaps contemporary)for my kitchen--100 year old house with feel and flavor of a 1920s or 1930s kitchen but not an attempt at a replication.
One set of counters will be marble and the other side of the room (the one with the really heavy duty use by the range and sink) will be soapstone. Do you have any close-up photos of your marble or soapstone counter edges? Do you remember what you chose for edging? Can you make any comments on what you like or dislike about the edge? Thanks.
This pic is out of our files, so it may not be the best, but you can see the edge. We got the standard eased edge on our marble. It works great for us. Our home is also 100 years old, but our kitchen remodel has modern touches in pulls, sink, appliances, etc. As such, the simple sharp edge and corners work better than a more detailed edge.
My 4cm Carrara has an ever-so-slightly rounded edge. I don't remember the name, but it was as straight an edge as I could get my fabricator to do. I dislike fancy edges, and prefer straight lines. It's very easy to wipe off my counters; whereas I've read on the forum that ogee edges and similar can be more difficult to wipe as crumbs can go astray down the edge. The woodworker who made my walnut island top matched my marble edge. 17months later and I'm still very happy with my choice.
P.S. Nicely written post.
Edited to add this additional pic of my edge.
This post was edited by breezygirl on Mon, Apr 8, 13 at 10:13
circuspeanut, may I come over and hug your countertops? ;)
needinfo, I have an eased edge on the perimeter tops, and a beveled edge on the island. I don't care for the bevel, but it started life as a dining table (from craigslist), so the price was right, and I'll live with it.
This photo shows the black marble tile, DIY eased edge and clipped corner. The KA is on an epoxy resin pad with the same edge. The cabinets are vintage, probably from the 1920s or 1930s.
I'm including a link to threads discussing soapstone edges.
Here is a link that might be useful: Franklin edge
Our counters have eased edges as well and I'm perfectly happy with them. Our soapstone edges are nicked, but our soapstone is very soft and these pics are from just above the silverware drawer and also where we prep (this is a well-used corner :) ). The marble pics are right at our sink, DW and range and we really have no issues with nicks. I think that an eased edge is a pretty forgiving edge and is also a look that lends itself to contemporary and historic looks.
Please excuse the look of my counters! My kitchen is being used in "fast lunch break" mode and has also not had a nice waxing in quite some time! And FWIW, our house was built in 1930...
Thanks to all of you for showing me the real life examples. Now it will be easier for me to make that decision as to whether or not I need/want to spend the extra money (and it is quite a bit) to go with a more rounded edge than the 1/8" radius.
Now to clarify a bit. My fabricator as standard will do 1/8" radius. Is this what you mean when you say an eased edge? The fabricator as standard will also do a 1/8" bevel, and I believe this is what mamagoose said she does not like.
My bevel is more like 3/4" on the diagonal plane, and 1/4" on the vertical. Sorry, I should have included a pic, but I don't have a recent close-up.
Here is a link that might be useful: bevel on carrara island/table (in old kitchen)
Here is my new soapstone sink and counter in my new bathroom which I finished last month. YIPPY.
I went with a half bullnose for my marble wall unit (only because my main counter was the same and I didn't want two different "plain" edges so close together). I like how it accentuates the veining that I chose to be along that edge, too. And this was not an up-charge at all. Standard pricing.
And an ogee on my nearly 200-year-old pice of "King of Prussia marble" that topped my mantel in the living room (always an up-charge from I was told):
This post was edited by KevinMP on Tue, Apr 9, 13 at 0:17
I used a 1/8" roundover edge (an eased edge) on the edges of the countertops, and a 1/4" roundover around the edge of the sink:
BTW, I did these myself, and there was absolutely no difference in difficulty of doing 1/8" vs. 1/4". It seems a shame if there were to be an upcharge for this!!
Everyone's photos are so lovely. Thanks so much. This will really help when they come to do my template tomorrow.
Enduring--great sink, and a great DIY project.
Angie--what you said is so interesting. I had just assumed that it would take more passes with the sander to make a more rounded or smoother edge and that would be the reason for the upcharge. Apparently not.
You know, now that you mention it, I may have made two passes with the 1/4", and only one with the 1/8". But still, we are talking minutes additional work! (I also did the bottom edge of my countertops with 1/4", so it was more than just the sink. It was perhaps, I dunno, an extra 8 minutes work.)
Actually when the guy was here to template today we discussed edges, and he told me that for them when working with soapstone it is probably actually easier to go with a bit more of a rounded edge than the standard 1/8" radius their company quotes as standard. And, he told me I didn't want to pay all of that money for the upgrade on soapstone because apparently, even though they do a lot of soapstone counters, the office person uses granite as the standard when figuring out up-charges. (I can see why it might be much more time and effort to make a more rounded edge on granite.) So, we'll see because I think he is going to go a bit more of a radius that the standard, but I won't have to pay the big bucks for it. I think we'll both win because they won't have to be quite so careful not to sand too much off (apparently something quite easy to do), and I'll get closer to what I want.
Thanks again for all of your assistance.


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I recently took my ceiling fan down from the kitchen to paint and when i went to reattach it, I've forgotten what wires attach to what. I thought it would be easy to remember so i didn't write it down, duh! It is a fan and light fixture. From the ceiling it has a black, and a red wire and a white wire, which seems to have another wire wrapped with it that has no colored covering. I think i remembered the white and red wrapped together, but now I'm not so sure.And the fan has a white, a blue and a black wire coming out of it. The blue and black were hooked together, so when I removed them I twisted them together on their ends to remind myself. There was also a green wire attached to the fan at one end, and the metal box at the other end, which I detached from the fan and left attached at the one end to the metal box the fan hooks to. Now of course I can't remember where the green wire attached to the fan. It is an older fan that turns on at the switch plate on the wall. It has no remote, just manual fan and light pulls. I was going to try to attach it with partial memory but don't want to make an electrical mistake. Can anybody please help me figure this out?
Thanks for the comment, but I'm already saying that to myself.
There is one switch on the wall. It turns on the fan. IF I want to turn the fan off and leave the light on, I can do it at the fan only, with the pull chain. Same goes for the light if I want only fan. All turns off at the single switch at the wall. My big problem is the green wire. What could it have been attached to on the fan? if it was at all. Thanks
The green wire is the safety ground. It hooks to a green wire from the fan. If no green fan wire present then it fastens to the metal chassis/frame of the fan.
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For repair quote, I had sent my wine-spilled macbook pro to a local mac shop. This was long time ago and didn't really had a chance to check the system after its returned, since the insurance paid to replace it.
However, since I still have the macbook, I wanted to continue using it.
It works perfectly ok, except it doesn't think there is any battery attached to it, so I have to have the power cord attached at all times.
I've checked the battery on other macbook pro's and it still has the full charge and perfectly in good order.
My guess is, my local mac shop somehow disconnected the battery connector or maybe some other irreplaceable damage on the mother board.
Is there a way to check this?
I do want to open up the macbook, if anything to sharpen my skills at it but I want to find out, what exactly to look for?
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I installed istat (free version) and coconutBattery. On istat, W is 0.19 and Amp is 0.00... Coconut Battery shows N/A <Current charge> and <Current capacity>. All other parameters also shows N/A I suppose I'll have to open it up and have a look at it
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Check THIS BOARD for damage as well as THIS connector and THIS cable.
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LAS VEGAS -- The idea of Manny Pacquiao being knocked out cold was shocking enough. The sight of him face down on the canvas, unresponsive even as bedlam broke out all around him, was positively frightening.
Mitt Romney saw it up close from his ringside seat just a few feet away. So did Pacquiao's wife, who broke down in tears and tried to get in the ring to aid her downed husband.
Juan Manuel Marquez didn't even bother to look. He was already busy celebrating the knockout of a lifetime.
This was boxing at its brutal best, a toe-to-toe slugfest Saturday night that was destined from the opening bell to be decided by fists instead of judges. Both fighters had been down, and both fighters were hurting when Marquez threw a right hand off the ropes with a second left in the sixth round that could be felt all the way in the rafters of the MGM Grand arena.
It will go down among the great fights of their era. But it was barely over when the cry arose for the two ever-so-willing warriors to do it again.
When it comes to Pacquiao and Marquez, four fights may not be enough.
"If you give us a chance, we'll fight again," Pacquiao said. "I was just starting to feel confident and then I got careless."
Indeed, the case could be made that Pacquiao was on the verge of a big win himself when Marquez landed the punch that sent him falling face first on the canvas. He had come back from a third-round knockdown to drop Marquez in the fifth and was landing big left hands that broke and bloodied the Mexican's nose.
After three fights that all went the distance both fighters had vowed to be more aggressive in their fourth meeting. Pacquiao ended up paying the price for it when he tried to close the sixth round with a flurry, a big mistake against a counterpuncher who drew him into his sights.
"I knew Manny could knock me out at any time," Marquez said. "I threw the perfect punch."
Pacquiao, who hadn't been stopped in a fight since 1999 in Thailand when he was a 112-pounder, took several minutes to come around on the canvas before being led to his ring stool. He blew his nose and stared vacantly ahead as the pro-Marquez crowd of 16,348 screamed in excitement.
He was taken to the hospital for a precautionary brain scan, then went to his hotel suite, where he ate with wife Jinkee and his entourage and watched a replay of the fight to see what went wrong.
"Spoiler alert," Pacquiao said as the fight played on the TV. "I don't think you are going to like how this ends."
His countrymen in the Philippines certainly didn't. The country came to a standstill as it usually does when its hero fights, and for the second fight in a row they were bitterly disappointed.
In the southern region where the boxer and congressman lives, some survivors of a powerful typhoon that killed more than 600 people this week watched on a big TV screen in a gym that serves as an emergency shelter in the town of New Bataan.
"People were really dismayed," town spokesman Marlon Esperanza said. "It was like they were hit by another typhoon."
What Marquez hit Pacquiao with might have seemed almost as powerful. Pacquiao had dropped Marquez four times in their first three fights, but Marquez had never put him down before he landed a big right hand in the third round for his first knockdown. The power was sure to raise questions about the new bulked-up physique Marquez has at the age of 39, which he said came from hard work under a strength conditioner who once provided steroids to Marion Jones and other track stars.
Still, it was a career-defining moment for Marquez, who believes he was robbed by the judges in his first three fights with Pacquiao. The two fought to a draw eight years ago at 125 pounds and Pacquiao was awarded close decisions in the other two fights.
It was clear there would be no need for the judges on this night, which might have been good for Marquez since he was losing by one point on all three scorecards when he landed his big punch.
The only question was which fighter would end the night on the canvas.
It turned out to be Pacquiao, who lost a controversial decision in his last fight to Timothy Bradley and who many in boxing believe is showing the wear of 17 years in the ring. For any other fighter the knockout loss might be the end, but Pacquiao showed no sign afterward that he was willing to call it quits and return to his other job as a congressman in the Philippines.
Trainer Freddie Roach said the decision won't be an easy one.
"I said if he is back in the gym and I see signs of him declining I'll tell him to retire, but if I don't see that I won't tell him to retire," Roach said.
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