The Study On Impact Of Governments’ Environmental Regulation On Quality Of Family Life

With the transformation of Chinese society’s principal contradiction,quality of life has been placed at an unprecedented strategic height in the process of national development,and how to improve quality of life has gradually become the core concern of Chinese government’s livelihood projects.As a bridge connecting individuals and society,family is the starting point of individuals’ survival and a main living environment,as well as an elementary unit of social production and life.Thus,quality of family life plays an irreplaceable role in national happiness and social harmony.However,the environmental pollution caused by the extensive economic growth model in early China has seriously destroyed human living environment,hindered the goal for ‘a better life’ and inhibited the improvement of quality of family life Therefore,it is urgent for government to strengthen environmental regulation.With the governments’ attention to environmental issues and the continuous strengthening of environmental regulation,has quality of family life been improved?What are the mechanisms? To answer above questions,this paper focused on the impact of governments’ environmental regulation on quality of family life and its mechanism.First of all,this paper respectively analysed concepts,policy design and actual research needs of quality of family life and family harmony,and selected to measure quality of family life from the perspective of family harmony.Specifically,this study obtained Baidu index of family harmony of 281 prefecture-level cities in China from2011 to 2016 with the help of the data sharing platform launched by Baidu search engine and data mining tools.Baidu index of family harmony refers to the average annual search frequency of family disharmony keywords.Meanwhile,on the basis of comparing the advantages and disadvantages of different measurement methods of governments’ environmental regulation,this study used entropy evaluation method and constructed comprehensive intensity index of governments’ environmental regulation of 281 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2016.The regression results show that there is a significant positive correlation between governments’ environmental regulation and quality of family life.Specifically,With the increase of the intensity of governments’ environmental regulation index,the search frequency of family disharmony keywords decreased.In addition,in order to overcome endogenous problems such as missing variables and measurement errors that may exist in the regression model,the air circulation coefficient was selected as the instrumental variable of governments’ environmental regulation.The 2SLS regression results verified that the causal effect between governments’ environmental regulation and quality of family life.Secondly,this paper used 2013 CSS data to investigate the mechanism of governments’ environmental regulation influencing quality of family life.Results indicate that governments’ environmental regulation significantly improve residents’ health and life satisfaction,increase positive emotional experiences and decrease negative emotional experiences at home.The physiological and psychological mechanisms were verified.Finally,this paper put forward some policy suggestions about advocating green consumption mode and strengthening physical and psychological intervention,which helps to deal with the negative impact of environmental pollution on quality of family life,achieve the goal for ‘a better life’ and further promote high-quality economic development and social harmony.