The Impact of Home Ownership on Life Satisfaction in Urban China: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Ren, Honghao; Folmer, Henk; Vlist, A.J. van der

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“…Ruprah (2010), using data on seventeen Latin American countries, finds that homeownership is positively associated with happiness. Ren, Folmer, and Vlist (2016) find that homeownership has a positive association with life satisfaction of medium-and high-income urban residents (but not with that of low-income urban residents) in…”

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“…Moreover, based on a second follow-up survey, homeowners still report higher 1 Similarly, neighborhood aesthetics (Dolan & Metcalfe, 2008) and proximity to green spaces and sports facilities (Knies, Burgess, & Propper, 2008) Other studies that use instrumental variables find that the coefficient on income is typically overestimated by a factor of 2-3 (e.g., Levinson, 2012;Luttmer, 2005). Ren, Folmer, and Vlist (2016) find that homeownership has a positive association with life satisfaction of medium-and high-income urban residents (but not with that of low-income urban residents) in However, their results should be interpreted with caution as their study contains only one city.…”

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Researchers often find that homeownership is not associated with life satisfaction in the United States. Using the 2009–2010 Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey, this study examines whether homeowners are more satisfied with their lives than renters in the following eight states: Alabama, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Nebraska, South Carolina and Wisconsin. A positive relationship between homeownership and life satisfaction (approximately 0.06 points on a 4‐point scale; p < .01) is found, even when whether respondents are worried about having enough money to pay their rent or mortgage is controlled for. However, the positive effect of homeownership declines as the local house prices increase, indicating that homeowners in expensive areas tend to be less satisfied with their lives than homeowners in more affordable areas.

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“…Private housing owners could sell, rent out or vacate their house without fear of confiscation. As a result, the relocation behavior of private housing residents ranked the lowest, demonstrating once again the decisive role of property ownership in increasing residential satisfaction for Chinese people [82,83]. In addition, due to the strict requirements on repairing historic houses and the transaction routine of full payment, there were only three cases of transactions of private housing.…”

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The Chinese Socio-Cultural Sustainability Approach: The Impact of Conservation Planning on Local Population and Residential Mobility

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Retaining indigenous populations is vital to the sustainable development and conservation of historic urban areas. However, little attention has been paid to Chinese conservation planning in an effort to safeguard indigenous people. This paper investigates population change and residential mobility in Chinese historic urban areas by applying demographic analysis and regression models to survey data collected in the Ping-Jiang Historic Quarter. Results indicate that few relocation behaviors are a result of the welfare housing policy and property ownership. However, residents’ intentions to move have increased, due to declining living conditions and tourism development in recent years. Classified by property ownership, public housing tenants and rented housing migrants were more willing to move, while private housing owners preferred to stay. Accordingly, there have been increasing trends of aging, poverty growth and population displacement, epitomized by the public housing population. Assessing planning impacts, welfare policy reduced residential mobility while undermining residents’ self-reliance to maintain their own houses. Without substantial social participation and community support, top-down conservation planning could only slow, rather than reverse, the trend of socio-cultural decline.

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“…Previous studies suggested that one's satisfaction with the neighborhood mostly depends on a good locality (Ioannides & Kan, 1996;Earnhart, 2002;Wang & Li, 2004;Jabareen, 2005;Kauko, 2007;Opoku & Abdul-Muhmin, 2010), whereas recent studies have shown that social, cultural, environmental, and economic factors also play crucial roles in the neighborhood preferences (Głuszak, 2015;Lux et al, 2018;Mulliner, Malys, & Maliene, 2016;Gluszak & Marona, 2017;Hanafi, Mazree, Umar, & Ahmad, 2018). In the literature, however, there are merely a few studies on the selection of the most suitable neighborhood (Głuszak, 2015;Gluszak & Marona, 2017;Zavadskas, Cavallaro, Podvezko, Ubarte, & Kaklauskas, 2017;Ren, Folmer, & van der Vlist, 2018). Furthermore, the models considered are often not easy for researchers to understand.…”

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Neighborhood Selection for a Newcomer via a Novel BWM-Based Revised Mairca Integrated Model: A Case From the Coquimbo-La Serena Conurbation, Chile

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Nowadays, cities are developing differently according to their needs, limitations and certain strategic plans. Moreover, conurbation areas will be more common in so many countries like Chile when there are two or more cities developing one next to another, leaning on each other. In this atmosphere, typical residents live in a region or a neighborhood based on certain criteria, so they know how and where they are going to live. From another point of view, a newcomer is usually faced with a city full of contrasts which make things completely and surprisingly complicated. In order to illustrate this, a real case was selected based on the research field, qualitative and quantitative (real) data. The Coquimbo-La Serena conurbation and it’s regions as “Comuna (in Chile)” is a really suitable case to show the complexity of the study. In order to face the challenge, a new hybrid Multiple-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) method is introduced based on the Best-Worst Method (BWM) and Multi-Attributive Ideal-Real Comparative Analysis (MAIRCA). The five best different neighborhoods as Comunas of the conurbation were analyzed based on the two main scenarios: having a private car or using only public transportation. To obtain more reliable results, a sensitivity analysis was made so as to determine the behavior of the proposed model against weight changes. Besides, the final results were compared with the other MADM methods, for example: Multi-Attributive Border Approximation Area Comparison (MABAC), VIsekriterijumsko KOmpromisno Rangiranje (VIKOR) and COmbinative Distance-based ASsessment (CODAS).

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The Impact of Home Ownership on Life Satisfaction in Urban China: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Abstract: The impact of home ownership on life satisfaction in urban China: A propensity score matching analysis Ren, Honghao; Folmer, Henk; van der Vlist, A.J.

Cited by 24 publications

References 89 publications

Are American homeowners more satisfied with their lives than renters?

Are American homeowners more satisfied with their lives than renters?

The Chinese Socio-Cultural Sustainability Approach: The Impact of Conservation Planning on Local Population and Residential Mobility

Neighborhood Selection for a Newcomer via a Novel BWM-Based Revised Mairca Integrated Model: A Case From the Coquimbo-La Serena Conurbation, Chile

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