Journal
JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT AND LAND USE
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages 1271-1285Publisher
UNIV MINNESOTA, CENTER TRANSPORTATION STUDIES
DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.2018.1286
Keywords
metro proximity; happiness; self-selection; Shanghai
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41471139]
- Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China [17ZDA068]
- MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities [16JJD790012]
- Center for Modern Chinese City Studies
- Future City Lab
- School of Urban and Regional Science
- East China Normal University
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Although an increasing number of scholars are evaluating rail transit benefits, there have been surprisingly few studies of the links between metro proximity and happiness. The principal objective of this paper is to assess the benefits of metro proximity for individual's happiness. A key challenge to empirically answering this question is the fact that residential location is likely to be the result of self-selection, i.e., personal preference, such that living around a rail station can increase residents' happiness. Taking advantage of the largely exogenous residential locations of those who bought their house 10 years earlier than the operation of their nearest metro station and those households living in non-market housing in Shanghai, we find proximity to a subway station robustly promotes happiness at the individual level. These results suggest that the development of rail transit and transit-oriented development (TOD) are promising ways to increase happiness.
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