Housing differentiation in transitional urban China

Wei, Zongcai; Liu, Yuting; He, Shenjing; Mo, Haitong

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2019.102469

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“…Considering that the soaring housing prices play a vital role in the relationship of higher education and people's happiness status according to the earlier analysis, and it is a confirmed fact that there is obvious differentiation in housing prices across Chinese cities (Wu, 2015;Wei et al, 2020). Therefore, it is necessary to take the regional housing prices into account.…”

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“…Thus, although highly educated people always have better job opportunities and higher income, they are not necessarily very lucky in the housing market due to the soaring housing prices. Considering the huge differentiation in housing prices across Chinese cities (Wu, 2015 ; Wei et al, 2020 ), housing assets may have more explanatory power to the life qualities of highly educated people who live in cities with relatively higher housing prices. Accordingly, we propose hypothesis 2 as follows:…”

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Why does higher education sometimes lead to unhappiness in China? An explanation from housing assets

Zhao²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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This article aims to answer the question that whether higher education would lead to happier life in China and tries to provide some explanations from the perspective of housing asset. Using data from four waves of China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we find that higher education on average is significantly negatively correlated with people's happiness in urban China. Higher education tends to prevent people from achieving “extremely happy” lives; instead, it is more likely to lead to “acceptable” lives. Based on the realities of housing market in urban China, we find that housing asset plays the mediating role in the relationship between higher education and happiness. Specifically, years of schooling could evidently compress the years of being homeowners; as a result, highly educated people generally have more unpaid housing debts and bear more housing purchase costs due to the soaring housing prices. Meanwhile, higher education has negative effect on people's happiness in cities with relatively high housing prices, while this effect is insignificant in cities with relatively low housing prices. Moreover, the market-oriented housing reform that launched in 1998 has negative impact on highly educated people's happiness, since it has dramatically boosted housing prices and essentially changed housing distribution system for urban employees. Besides, we also find that Ph.D graduates are the relatively unhappiest people compared to bachelors or masters. Obviously, our findings have important policy implications for Chinese government to understand and resolve the “education-happiness paradox.”

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Section: Related Literature and Hypothesis Developmentmentioning

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Why does higher education sometimes lead to unhappiness in China? An explanation from housing assets

Zhao²,

Zhang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Before 1978, homeownership and private property rights had virtually vanished, and urban residents had neither opportunities nor incentives to own a home (Ho and Kwong, 2002). Since 1978, housing reform has been implemented through the privatisation of public housing stocks (He et al, 2017; Wei et al, 2020). Housing inequalities across work units rooted in socialism have been strengthened by the institutional changes of a state-led market economy.…”

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Generational variations in the timing of entry into homeownership in Shanghai: The role of family formation and family of origin

Cui

et al. 2021

Urban Studies

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Radical housing reform has triggered tremendous changes in both housing supply and housing demand in China over the past four decades, leading to apparent generational fractures in homeownership. In contrast to the rising age of first dwelling purchasers in some Western countries, younger cohorts in China are entering homeownership at increasingly younger ages despite rising housing prices. Based on a retrospective survey conducted in Shanghai in 2018 and 2019, this study examines the changing roles of family formation and parental background in affecting the timing of entering homeownership across different cohorts. Employing event history analyses, this study demonstrates that transitions to first homeownership have become synchronised with family formation among younger cohorts, which implies the social norm of ‘marital home’. Furthermore, the results reveal that parental background is increasingly influential in determining the timing of first home purchase; men and individuals from one-child families are more likely to be the beneficiary of parental help to enter homeownership. Through the lens of cohort, this study contributes to understanding the changing role of family formation and family of origin, which are shaped by institutional and cultural transformations in China. The intensified intergenerational transmission leads to exacerbation of horizontal housing inequality, that is, some achieving homeownership at a younger age while others being shunned from homeownership in the context of worsening housing affordability.

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“…Hence, there are certain transitions that could be taken into consideration for the housing sectors. These transitions are studied through various possibilities, such as housing differentiation issues [36], economic policy uncertainties [37], housing market dynamics [38], dynamics and inequalities in energy efficiency [39] [40] [41], green housing transition [42], the impact of housing price on non-housing matters [43], etc. Some of these could be verified through different structural transitions [44], changes in institutional arrangements or structure [22], socio-economic development and land-use change [45], as well as issues of urbanisation [34] [35], and different scales [46] or spatial levels [47].…”

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Evaluating the Nexus between Housing and Energy Sectors: The Comparison of Urban, Peri-Urban and Rural Housing Areas in Zhuhai, China

Cheshmehzangi¹

2020

EPE

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China has developed several housing policy reforms and has, in recent years, progressed further on developing policies to promote green strategies and energy-saving plans. The urban housing has much benefited from such reforms and plans, while rural housing has experienced minimal change in the past few decades. As a result, this study aims to identify and explore these differences, challenges, and implications that exist between three areas of urban, peri-urban, and rural in a particular case study in China. For this study, selected residential areas in the City of Zhuhai and its peri-urban and rural areas are selected as case studies. A questionnaire survey is conducted to analyze energy and housing conditions across the more prosperous urban, the dynamic and transitory peri-urban, and the less prosperous rural areas. The case studies are analyzed as comparative examples in a hot and humid sub-tropical area of Southern China. The study compares energy and housing conditions and argues potential possibilities and challenges for the future development of housing policy reforms that are the result of current housing development patterns and green strategy situation in China.

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Housing differentiation in transitional urban China

Cited by 18 publications

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Why does higher education sometimes lead to unhappiness in China? An explanation from housing assets

Why does higher education sometimes lead to unhappiness in China? An explanation from housing assets

Generational variations in the timing of entry into homeownership in Shanghai: The role of family formation and family of origin

Evaluating the Nexus between Housing and Energy Sectors: The Comparison of Urban, Peri-Urban and Rural Housing Areas in Zhuhai, China

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