Perceptions of upward social mobility and life satisfaction in China: the moderating role of Internet use.
Since Sorokin's seminal work, numerous studies have examined the correlation between upward social mobility and subjective well-being, and they have generated mixed results. One commonality of the existing studies is that most of them have not taken endogeneity issues into account. We exploit plausi...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Journal Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 196 - 211 |
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Jan/Feb2026
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