Testing Subjective Well-Being from the Perspective of Social Quality: Quantile Regression Evidence from Shanghai, China

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 257-276

  Yuan, Hao ^a   Golpelwar, Mayank ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Quantile regression; Shanghai; Social quality; Subjective well being; Success attribution; Trust

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EMPOWERMENT; MARRIAGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TESTING METHOD;

CHINA; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84879694072     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-012-0091-z     Document Type: Article

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