행복지수와 최적도시규모 : 중국의 도시 사례

Abstract

This paper test the possibility of optimal urban scale in Chinese urban. The optimal urban scale could approach from many aspect. On the economic aspect, the agglomeration economies and urban productivity could approach the optimal urban scale. And we also can use the city effect that consider the social environment and physical environment. In the base of the previous research, this paper try to test the possibility of the optimal urban scale from the happiness aspect. This paper use the inverted U hypothesis of the relation between the happiness index and the urban scale. We use the urban GDP scale as the proxy variable of the urban scale, and the test period set from 2011 to 2016. Because China has the hukou system and the one child policy, the natural growth of the urban population receive the control. The urban economic scale, urban GDP, has more implication than the urban population. The happiness includes not only the economic income increasement, but also include the health, medical, life, environment, and sanitation. It can explain the quantity growth, also can explain the quality development. The result finds that the relation between urban economic scale and happiness index has the inverted U type. It means that we can consider the optimal urban scale from the happiness index aspect.