%0 Journal Article
%T Residential environment and subjective well
%A Guanpeng Dong
%A Kelvyn Jones
%A Wenzhong Zhang
%A Yu Chen
%A Yunxiao Dang
%J Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
%@ 2399-8091
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2399808317723012
%X Existing literature has examined the determinants of subjective well-being in China from the social, economic and psychological perspectives. Very few studies explore the impacts of residential environment on subjective well-being. Drawing on a large scale questionnaire survey in Beijing, this paper investigates the role of residential environment by decomposing the variations of subjective well-being at fine-grained spatial scales, i.e. district and neighbourhood levels. A bivariate response binomial multilevel model is employed to assess the relative importance of geographical contexts and individual characteristics, in particular, the household registration (hukou) status, in influencing subjective well-being. The results show significant heterogeneities in subjective well-being among districts and neighbourhoods. Neighbourhood types are significantly correlated with subjective well-being, with residents in commercial housing neighbourhoods reporting higher levels of subjective well-being than those in work-unit and affordable housing neighbourhoods. However, the impacts of neighbourhood types are not uniformly experienced by people with different hukou status. Migrants tend to express lower levels of subjective well-being than local residents. Such disparities are more pronounced in urban villages compared with other neighbourhoods
%K Subjective well-being
%K residential environment
%K neighbourhood types
%K hukou status
%K multilevel model
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2399808317723012