本文利用2010年中國綜合社會調查的數據,以中國為例分析了伊斯特林悖論的形成機制。本文通過構建一種多元分層動態的幸福感分析范式,分析了主觀幸福感形成過程中多變量以及微觀幸福變量基于宏觀經濟發展的條件效應,進而揭示了伊斯特林悖論的形成機制。本文發現,隨著宏觀經濟的發展,一方面,居民的需求類型逐漸由物質型向發展享受型升級,由個人的物質財富所帶來的幸福回報不斷削弱;另一方面,社會不平等的加劇引發了強烈的相對剝奪效應,消除了由經濟發展本身所帶來的幸福回報,由此造成主觀幸福感水平并沒有隨經濟高速增長顯著提升,而是呈現出相對停滯的狀態。

Using the 2010 Chinese General Social Survey( CGSS) data,we analyze the formative mechanism of Easterlin Paradox in China. By establishing an analytical framework consisting of three basic variables which include macroeconomic growth,demand shift of residents and increasing social inequality,we reveal the interaction among multiple variables and between macro-and micro-mechanisms in the formation of the residents’ subjective well-being,thus showing how Easterlin Paradox is formed in China. We find that as the economy grows,residents’ subjective well-being shifts from needs for basic survival to that of development and enjoyment,which reduces the rewards brought by the increase in personal wealth. What ’s more,the aggravating social inequality introduces relative deprivation, eliminating happiness brought by economic development. As a result,the subjective well-being does not rise noticeably in accordance with the rapid growth of economy,but comes to a relative standstill.