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Ethnic Diversity, Prejudice and Wellbeing Among Older Chinese

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In this chapter, the authors present a quantitative analysis to examine the impact of ethnic diversity and discriminatory attitudes on the subjective wellbeing of older Chinese. Using data from the World Values Survey, they find a negative effect of ethnic diversity on wellbeing. The authors further focus on a wide range of measures that capture various dimensions of discriminatory attitudes and find evidence of a negative effect of discrimination on wellbeing.

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    While we use the term discrimination across the manuscript, our measures of what we call discrimination actually capture discriminatory attitudes or prejudicial opinions. However, the findings are still relevant for policy given that opinions about discrimination are likely to be manifested.

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  3. School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Samuelson Appau & Sefa Awaworyi Churchill

  4. Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana

    Janet Ocloo

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Agyekumhene, E., Amega, D., Appau, S., Awaworyi Churchill, S., Ocloo, J. (2020). Ethnic Diversity, Prejudice and Wellbeing Among Older Chinese. In: Awaworyi Churchill, S., Farrell, L., Appau, S. (eds) Measuring, Understanding and Improving Wellbeing Among Older People. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2353-3_8

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