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| Title: | 政府支出與國民幸福感—以空間計量分析
Government Expenditure and National Happiness—Evidence from Spatial Analysis |
| Authors: | 謝依珊
XIE, YI-SHAN |
| Contributors: | 黃智聰
Huang, Jr-Tsung
謝依珊
XIE, YI-SHAN |
| Keywords: | 幸福感
政府支出
人均負債
空間杜賓模型
Happiness
Government Expenditure
Debt Per Capita
Spatial Durbin Model |
| Date: | 2022 |
| Issue Date: | 2022-08-01 18:32:45 (UTC+8) |
| Abstract: | 長久以來，世界各國皆以GDP作為衡量國家進步或成功與否的關鍵指標，然而，一個國家的經濟發展狀況並不能完全代表該國人民的生活水準或幸福程度。從不丹的「國民幸福總值」（Gross National Happiness，GNH）、聯合國的世界幸福報告（World Happiness Report）至經濟合作暨發展組織（OECD）的「美好生活指數」（Better Life Index）等，均能發現各國對於人民幸福的日益重視，許多國家的政府已逐漸將其納為發展目標。
本文以2012年至2020年的77個國家追蹤資料為樣本，利用固定效果空間杜賓模型主要探討政府支出對各國人民幸福感的影響，幸福感的衡量指標使用與聯合國發布之世界幸福指數（World Happiness Index）相同的數據來源，即蓋洛普民意調查的人民生活滿意程度。在各國人民幸福感存在正向空間相依性的情況下，實證結果發現，由於政府支出能夠建立各種社會褔利制度、社會安全保障與公共基礎建設等，使人民生活品質提升，因而對國民的幸福感產生正向影響；然而，本文亦發現各國每年人均負債的增加會導致國民的幸福感下降，表示若政府支出多以舉債支應而導致債留子孫，將對國民的幸福產生不利影響。此外，若一國的失業率越高，該國人民的幸福感將越低；若一國的預期壽命越長，則該國人民的幸福感也將越高。
For a long time, all countries in the world have used GDP as a key indicator to measure the progress or success of a country. However, the economic development status of a country can not fully represent people`s living standard or happiness. From the "Gross National Happiness" (GNH) in Bhutan, the World Happiness Report of the United Nations to the "Better Life Index" of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), etc., it can be found that there are more and more countries are paying attention to national happiness, and the governments of many countries have gradually adopted it as a development goal.
Using the fixed-effect spacial Durbin model and panel data including 77 countries from 2012 to 2020, this paper aims to explore the impact of government expenditure on happiness in various countries. The happiness in this paper is measured by the satisfaction with personal life in Gallup poll, the same data source as the World Happiness Report of the United Nations. In the case of positive spatial dependence of the happiness in different countries, the empirical results show that government expenditure has a positive impact on the happiness because it can establish various social welfare systems, social security, and public infrastructure, etc., to improve national quality of life; however, this paper also finds that the increase in debt per capita leads to the decline in the happiness, implying that if government expenditure is almost from borrowing, then the happiness will be affected negatively. In addition, if the unemployment rate is higher, then the happiness will be lower; if the life expectancy is longer, then the happiness will be higher. |
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| Description: | 碩士
國立政治大學
財政學系
109255034 |
| Source URI: | http://thesis.lib.nccu.edu.tw/record/#G0109255034 |
| Data Type: | thesis |
| DOI: | 10.6814/NCCU202201107 |
| Appears in Collections: | [財政學系] 學位論文
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