超越收入差距:幸福不平等与居民健康关系的新解析  

Beyond Income Inequality:A Novel Dissecting of the Relationship between Happiness Inequality and Residents'Health

作　　者：魏钦恭[1] 商巧琼 WEI Qingong;SHANG Qiaoqiong

机构地区：[1]中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院,北京100872 [2]中国人民大学社会与人口学院,北京100872

出　　处：《学术月刊》2024年第2期136-148,共13页Academic Monthly

基　　金：国家社会科学基金项目“网络时代的结构巨变与社会韧性问题研究”(21BSH053)的阶段性成果。

摘　　要：缩小社会经济差距是否会促进居民健康是学界长期关注并争论的话题。既往文献多集中在经济收入客观侧而忽视了人们生活感受的主观侧,窄化了对社会发展的理解。主观幸福的分布态势是衡量社会发展状况时所不应忽视的,其也可能影响居民健康水平的增进。基于对CGSS 2005-2021多期重复截面数据的分析,考虑遗漏变量、测量误差和反向因果等问题,一系列回归结果稳健地显示:在控制收入差距的条件下,一个地区的幸福不平等越高,居民的自评健康水平越低。进一步解析表明:这一关系的驱动机制既包括“机械关联效应”,也包括“社会情境效应”;而社会情境效应的影响作用在幸福不平等的地区间差异和地区内变动中都有体现。这些发现拓展和丰富了健康社会学的相关文献,为更好地增进民生福祉提供了参考。The question of whether reducing socio-economic disparities promotes residents' health has long been a topic of scholarly attention and debate.Previous literature has predominantly focused on the objective facet of income inequality,neglecting individuals' subjective experiences,thereby narrowing our understanding of social development.The article posits that subjective happiness inequality is crucial in evaluating social development,given its impact on individual health enhancement.With using 2005—2021 CGSS data,considering issues such as omitted variables,measurement errors,and reverse causality,a series of regression results robustly show that,after controlling for income inequality,regions with higher happiness inequality tend to exhibit lower levels of residents' self-rated health.Further analysis reveals that the mechanisms driving this relationship encompass both mechanical correlation effects and social contextual effects.The impact of social contextual effects is evident in both between-regional variations and within-regional fluctuations of happiness inequality.These findings enrich the existing literature on social inequality and residents' health,offering valuable insights for the betterment of residents' well-being.

关 键 词：健康 幸福不平等 机械关联效应 社会情境效应 重复截面数据 

分 类 号：C915[经济管理]