关键词: 国民幸福感 , 指标体系, LASSO筛选, 政策举措

Abstract: Civil happiness is the ultimate goal of socio-economic development and public policies. This paper is concerned with analysis of influential factors of civil happiness in China based on our survey data. It uses the LASSO method, which is a newly developed important statistical method for effectively selecting important variables and eliminating estimation bias. In this empirical study, it considers 6 personal characteristic features and 40 variables from different aspects. It shows that 3 personal characteristic features including gender, marital status and education level and 9 other variables including family life satisfaction, self-esteem, social security satisfaction and lifestyle satisfaction are statistically significant for happiness. Furthermore, it also analyzes influential factors for different subsamples partitioned by gender, residence (urban versus rural), or geography (south versus north). Basing on the empirical results, it proposes several policies to enhance the civil happiness.

Key words: Civil Happiness, Index System, LASSO, Policy Suggestion