Can entrepreneurship bring happiness? Evidence from China

Zhao, Daping; Jiang, Jialing; Yin, Zhichao

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2019.12.009

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“…The average natural logarithm of entrepreneurship gross and net income in 2017 are 11.37 and 11.05. These values are roughly consistent with Su and Kong [67] and Zhao et al [29].…”

Section: Control Variables and Mediating Variablessupporting

confidence: 93%

“…Entrepreneurship not only has been as a potential tool for alleviating rural poverty to improve farmers' wealth and happiness [28,29], but also accelerates economic growth, optimizes industrial structure and promotes economic transformation in rural China [30]. Main factors influencing farmers' entrepreneurship, for example, risk attitude, credit constraints and social capital have been greatly researched [2,31,32].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Nexus between Formal Credit and E-Commerce Utilization of Entrepreneurial Farmers in Rural China: A Mediation Analysis

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Wang

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E-commerce furnishes farmers in rural China with a novel solution accomplishing entrepreneurship transformation, but serious credit constraints still coexist with it at present, which may restrict the release of e-commerce’s potential. Therefore, this study investigates whether formal credit promotes entrepreneurial farmers’ e-commerce utilization and explores its influencing mechanism. Based on the survey data collected from 831 entrepreneurial farmers in Shaanxi province, Ningxia province and Shandong province in rural China, the propensity score matching (PSM) method was applied to measure the impact of formal credit on e-commerce utilization. The results show that formal credit contributes to a 18.41% increase of e-commerce utilization in general and increases entrepreneurial farmers’ online purchases and sales by 11.15% and 14.69%, respectively. Some groups perform significantly in the heterogeneity analysis, the most noteworthy of which are entrepreneurial farmers who are younger, belong to new type of agricultural business entities and use mobile payments. Their e-commerce utilization, including online purchases and sales, are impacted most by formal credit. Furthermore, when the bootstrap method was used to examine the mediating effect, we found that formal credit has a positive and significant effect on the utilization of e-commerce through four channels, which are internet learning, asset allocation, labor allocation and income growth. Hence, the findings suggest that the government should augment the amount of formal credit to optimize entrepreneurial farmers’ internet learning, asset allocation, labor employment and income growth, thereby promoting e-commerce to achieve entrepreneurial transformation and sustainable development in rural areas.

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“…The average natural logarithm of entrepreneurship gross and net income in 2017 are 11.37 and 11.05. These values are roughly consistent with Su and Kong [67] and Zhao et al [29].…”

Section: Control Variables and Mediating Variablessupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Nexus between Formal Credit and E-Commerce Utilization of Entrepreneurial Farmers in Rural China: A Mediation Analysis

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Wang

et al. 2021

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“…The pursuit of happiness and the achievement of wellbeing are two highly debatable concepts that are rife with meanings and nuances that lead to some complexities in the theorizing process, including some cases of overlapping characteristics (Lyubomirsky and Lepper, 1999;Riff and Singer, 2007;Boehm and Lyubomirsky, 2009;Zhao et al, 2020). The concept of happiness can be understood as an individual cognitive representation of the nature and experience of wellbeing (Bojanowska and Zalewska, 2015;Flores-Kanter et al, 2018;Usai et al, 2020).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship and Happinessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Various studies indicate that having a high degree of self-efficacy has a significant impact on the positive and happy state of a person (see also Caprara et al, 2006 ). Zhao et al ( 2020 ) indicated that entrepreneurial decision-making and entrepreneurial experience affect household happiness significantly. Family wellbeing is significantly increased if the family is entrepreneurial, and it will be higher if the family is actively entrepreneurial.…”

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A Scientometric Systematic Review of Entrepreneurial Wellbeing Knowledge Production

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This article presents a scientometric study regarding entrepreneurship and its relationship with wellbeing. The study presents a systematic review and measures impact and relational character to identify the relevance of countries, research organizations, and authors in the field of entrepreneurial wellbeing. The study poses the following research questions: What is the nature of the evolution of scientific knowledge in the entrepreneurial wellbeing field? What is the nature of the concentration in terms of geographical distribution and co-authorship level of knowledge production in the entrepreneurial wellbeing field? What are the knowledge trends in knowledge production for entrepreneurial wellbeing literature? The contribution of this research is two-fold. First, in terms of methodology, it contributes study into the use of a more robust approach to search for the scientometric trends about entrepreneurship wellbeing in addition to the PRISMA review tools and the PICOS eligibility criteria. Secondly, the study presents research updates in the search for results for the last 2 years of knowledge production. This upgrade is particularly important in a research field that presents exponential growth, where 2019 and 2020 presented almost double the amount of knowledge production compared to 2017 and 2018.

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“…"Relative income" has a greater impact on happiness than absolute income, and when income is higher than the average of the surrounding groups or regions, individuals will have stronger happiness [9]. International research on the happiness of Chinese residents mainly starts from the impact of online shopping [10], home debt hold [11,12], consumer expenditure [13], property holding and investment [14,15], and individual entrepreneurship [16]. e study found that online shopping can significantly improve the happiness of rural residents [10], family debt holdings have significantly reduced happiness [11,12], consumer spending has a positive role on happiness [13], self-owned property improves happiness, but the rapid growth of property investment has a negative impact on happiness [14,15], and entrepreneurship improves happiness by increasing family income [16].…”

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confidence: 99%

Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Happiness Index of Nine Cities in Pearl River Delta Based on AHP

Xie

Liu

Qin

2021

Journal of Mathematics

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With the development of China’s economy and the improvement of national income level, people’s living demands have shifted from food and clothing to happiness, so happiness has become an important indicator to measure the performance of government performance. Scientific measure of residents’ happiness is an important research topic for scholars, but the academic quantitative research on Chinese residents’ happiness is less. A few quantitative studies often focus on the happiness of a single study subject at some time, and this paper uses the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to measure the nine cities in 2011–2018, not only the comparative happiness between horizontal cities and cities, and the study data longitudinal span from 2011 to 2018. A comparative study of multiple objects across space-time was conducted. Empirical results show that the happiness level of urban residents in the Pearl River Delta has three characteristics: regional structure differentiation, urban group aggregation, and siphon effect in central cities, and the corresponding policy suggestions are put forward according to the results of the empirical research.

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Can entrepreneurship bring happiness? Evidence from China

Cited by 35 publications

References 18 publications

The Nexus between Formal Credit and E-Commerce Utilization of Entrepreneurial Farmers in Rural China: A Mediation Analysis

The Nexus between Formal Credit and E-Commerce Utilization of Entrepreneurial Farmers in Rural China: A Mediation Analysis

A Scientometric Systematic Review of Entrepreneurial Wellbeing Knowledge Production

Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation of Happiness Index of Nine Cities in Pearl River Delta Based on AHP

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