李俊鹏 Puneet Vatsa 马旺林 | 点滴中的幸福：垃圾分类提升了中国农村居民的主观幸福感吗？

Junpeng Li, Puneet Vatsa and Wanglin Ma (2023). Small acts with big impacts: Does garbage classification improve subjective well-being in rural China? Applied Research in Quality of Life, first online

全文链接（开放获取）：

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-022-10142-z

摘要

近年来，中国农村地区的固体废弃物激增，严重破坏了农村生态环境并威胁了5.4亿农村居民的生产和生活。在此背景下，中国政府适时发起了垃圾分类运动。垃圾分类的经济与环境效益虽然已成常识，但当前对垃圾分类是否及在多大程度上影响了人们的主观幸福感知之甚少。若垃圾分类能够增进人们的主观幸福感，其无疑会进一步激发人们参与垃圾分类的热情，这对持续深入推进垃圾分类并巩固其环境改善效应具有关键作用。鉴于此，本研究利用2020年的中国土地经济调查（CLES）数据探索了垃圾分类对人们主观幸福感的影响。在利用内生处理效应模型克服与垃圾分类参与相关的选择性偏误问题后，研究发现：垃圾分类，这一简单且平常的实践活动能够显著提高中国农村居民的幸福感和生活满意度。基于此，本文认为政府应当强化公共资源投入以刺激农村居民对垃圾分类的采纳。

Abstract

Solid waste has surged in rural China, home to more than 540 million people. To preserve the environment, the Chinese government has piloted garbage classification programs. However, little is known about whether and to what extent classifying garbage affects people's subjective well-being—should its effects be positive, people would be more amenable to classifying garbage, making it easier to entrench garbage classification practices and programs and ultimately improve the environment. Accordingly, we analyze the impact of garbage classification on subjective well-being using the 2020 China Land Economic Survey data. An endogenous treatment regression model is utilized to address self-selection into garbage classification programs. We find that this simple and somewhat mundane practice can significantly improve people's happiness and life satisfaction. These results reaffirm the compound benefits of allocating more public resources to accelerate the adoption of garbage classification in rural areas.

——END

转自：“三农学术”微信公众号

如有侵权，请联系本站删除！