Table 4.
Mechanisms analysis
| Dependent variable: | Incomea (1) | Healthb (2) | Divorcec (3) | Widowd (4) | Jobe (5) | Socialf (6) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel A. Full sample | |||||||||||
| Quake | 0.077 (0.048) | 0.090 (0.066) | 0.015*** (0.005) | 0.020*** (0.006) | − 0.052** (0.019) | 0.179** (0.064) | |||||
| Baseline covariates | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||||
| Year FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||||
| Province FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |||||
| Adjusted R2 | 0.348 | 0.208 | 0.022 | 0.253 | 0.226 | 0.328 | |||||
| N1 | 3454 | 3224 | 3011 | 3294 | 3672 | 3023 | |||||
| N | 28,920 | 28,800 | 23,915 | 26,037 | 32,139 | 24,415 | |||||
| Panel B. Rural subsample | |||||||||||
| Quake | 0.017 (0.069) | 0.112 (0.095) | 0.017*** (0.003) | − 0.034 (0.026) | 0.203*** (0.066) | ||||||
| Baseline covariates | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||
| Year FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||
| Province FE | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | ||||||
| Adjusted R2 | 0.253 | 0.198 | 0.012 | 0.243 | 0.395 | ||||||
| N1 | 1880 | 1693 | 1653 | 1982 | 1599 | ||||||
| N | 15,414 | 15,167 | 14,513 | 17,001 | 11,546 | ||||||
Measures of the five life domains serve as dependent variables in columns (1)–(6): aIncome is the natural logarithm of the equivalized household income adjusted to the level in the year 2005 based on provinces’ annual consumer price index (CPI); bHealth is self-evaluated health status (1–5); cDivorce is 1 for divorcees and 0 for those currently married or cohabitating with a partner; dWidow is 1 for widows and 0 for those currently married or cohabitating with a partner; eJob is 1 for the employed and 0 for the unemployed and those not in the labor markets; and fSocial refers to frequency of contact with friends and relatives (1–5). Independent variables are identical to the baseline models of Table 2. N and N1 represent the sample size and number of observations from Sichuan province, respectively. Standard errors, clustered at the province level, are shown in parentheses. *** significance at the 1% level, ** significance at the 5% level. FE: Fixed effect