Table 2.
Effects of the earthquake on well-being, OLS estimation
| Dependent variable: Happiness (1–5)a | Full (1) | Full (2) | Rural (3) | Rural (4) | Urban (5) | Urban (6) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quakeb | − 0.085*** (0.027) | − 0.096*** (0.026) | − 0.156*** (0.033) | − 0.153*** (0.035) | − 0.014 (0.028) | − 0.023 (0.027) |
| Male | − 0.034*** (0.009) | − 0.040** (0.017) | − 0.030** (0.013) | |||
| Age | − 0.015*** (0.003) | − 0.009*** (0.003) | − 0.021*** (0.003) | |||
| Squared age/1000 | 0.180*** (0.031) | 0.122*** (0.034) | 0.244*** (0.034) | |||
| Han ethnicity | − 0.110*** (0.031) | − 0.126** (0.044) | − 0.045 (0.030) | |||
| Middle school | 0.163*** (0.015) | 0.175*** (0.019) | 0.147*** (0.028) | |||
| High school and above | 0.310*** (0.019) | 0.314*** (0.034) | 0.300*** (0.031) | |||
| Urban | 0.004 (0.017) | |||||
| Year FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Province FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Adjusted R2 | 0.060 | 0.081 | 0.069 | 0.085 | 0.052 | 0.077 |
| N1 | 3677 | 3677 | 1986 | 1986 | 1691 | 1691 |
| N | 32,205 | 32,205 | 17,047 | 17,047 | 15,158 | 15,158 |
aThe dependent variable is self-reported happiness (1–5); bQuake is 1 for Sichuan after 2008 and 0 otherwise. Major individual controls are included in columns (2), (4) and (6), and year and province fixed effects (FEs) are included in all the columns. N and N1 represent the sample size and number of observations from Sichuan province, respectively. OLS estimation is applied and standard errors, clustered at a province level, are shown in parentheses. *** significance at the 1% level, ** significance at the 5% level