School of Public Economics and Administration, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China.
School of Public Administration, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan, China.
Front Public Health. 2022 Jun 17;10:874500. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.874500. eCollection 2022.
To investigate whether people's happiness will increase after retirement, this paper empirically investigates 2012, 2015, and 2017 China General Social Survey (CGSS) data using Ordinary Least Squares, Binary logit, and Fuzzy regression discontinuity Design. The results all show that retirement will significantly increase the happiness of men in urban China. The paper also validates these findings by testing the continuity of the reference and covariates at the cut-off point, changing the model settings, and using a more rigorous sample classification method. In addition, the article further analyzes the heterogeneity of the study and finds that retirement brings more happiness to those who have a college degree or less and have multiple children. The better the health status, the smaller the effect of retirement on happiness. The more social interactions, the smaller the effect of retirement on happiness. The policy implication of this paper is that when implementing a delayed retirement policy, special care should be taken for groups with greater welfare impairment, and it needs to be introduced together with other supporting measures to reduce people's worries. This paper analyzes the relationship between retirement and happiness in China and makes suggestions for the implementation of a delayed retirement policy, enriching the theoretical and empirical work on the effects of retirement on people's happiness and contributing to the world's response to aging and welfare policies for the older person.
为了探究退休是否会增加人们的幸福感，本文利用 2012 年、2015 年和 2017 年中国综合社会调查（CGSS）数据，运用普通最小二乘法、二元对数和模糊回归不连续设计进行了实证研究。结果均表明，退休会显著提高中国城市男性的幸福感。本文还通过检验临界点处参照系和协变量的连续性、改变模型设置以及使用更严格的样本分类方法来验证这些发现。此外，文章进一步分析了研究的异质性，发现退休给那些学历较低、有多个孩子的人带来了更多的幸福感。健康状况越好，退休对幸福感的影响越小。社会交往越多，退休对幸福感的影响越小。本文的政策意义在于，在实施延迟退休政策时，应特别关注福利受损较大的群体，并需要与其他配套措施一起推出，以减少人们的担忧。本文分析了中国退休与幸福感之间的关系，并对延迟退休政策的实施提出了建议，丰富了退休对人们幸福感影响的理论和实证工作，为应对老龄化和老年人福利政策做出了贡献。
