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. 2008 Jun 18;68(1):547–555. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.05.017

Table 2.

The environment and well-being in urban China

I II
Pollution − 9.086⁎⁎⁎ − 15.58⁎⁎⁎
(− 4.668) (− 3.442)
Disaster − 0.005⁎⁎⁎ − 0.0244⁎⁎⁎
(− 2.881) (− 7.574)
Congestion − 0.0002 − 0.0547⁎⁎⁎
(− 0.280) (− 6.998)
Parks − 0.005 0.499⁎⁎⁎
(− 0.760) (− 6.955)
Environment awareness 0.0131 0.0402
(0.490) (− 1.476)
Neighbourhood environment 0.207⁎⁎⁎ 0.202⁎⁎⁎
(14.48) (− 13.88)
Gender − 0.0009 − 0.00378
(− 0.0393) (− 0.156)
Age − 0.0205⁎⁎⁎ − 0.0198⁎⁎⁎
(− 3.117) (− 2.984)
(Age)2 (× 100) 0.0326⁎⁎⁎ 0.0326⁎⁎⁎
(4.462) (− 4.426)
Educationa
 Senior secondary school − 0.0432 − 0.0274
(− 1.239) (− 0.781)
 Polytechnic school − 0.0112 − 0.0121
(− 0.249) (− 0.267)
 Three year higher education − 0.0559 − 0.0568
(− 1.361) (− 1.369)
 Four year undergraduate and above − 0.0045 − 0.0125
(− 0.0959) (− 0.260)
Income 0.0642⁎⁎⁎ 0.0692⁎⁎⁎
(19.04) (− 19.00)
Unemployed − 0.353⁎⁎⁎ − 0.346⁎⁎⁎
(− 6.697) (− 6.527)
Marital statusb
 Single 0.0381 0.0339
(0.413) − 0.364
 Married 0.0688 0.0286
(0.820) (− 0.338)
 Divorced and remarried − 0.203 − 0.255
(− 1.098) (− 1.367)
 Widowed and not remarried − 0.0933 − 0.124
(− 0.820) (− 1.082)
 Widowed and remarried 0.363 0.343
(1.218) (− 1.141)
Pro-market − 0.0371⁎ − 0.0569⁎⁎⁎
(− 1.736) (− 2.609)
Income inequality − 0.190⁎⁎⁎ − 0.157⁎⁎⁎
(− 7.213) (− 5.866)
Social protection − 0.085⁎⁎⁎ − 0.0430⁎
(− 3.447) (− 1.689)
National reunification 0.164⁎⁎⁎ 0.165⁎⁎⁎
(4.066) (− 4.061)
SARS 0.129⁎⁎⁎ 0.0822⁎⁎⁎
(4.615) (− 2.837)
Occupation dummiesc Yes Yes
City dummiesd No Yes
Number of observations 8890 8890
Log likelihood − 10,045.907 − 9868.3313
Pseudo R2 0.0587 0.0754

Notes: ⁎⁎⁎(⁎) denotes statistical significance at the 1%(10%) level.

a

Reference category is junior secondary school and below.

b

Reference category is divorced and not remarried.

c

Reference category is not in the workforce.

d

Reference category is Shanxi.