Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate equivalence scale elasticity

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 359-372

  Schwarze, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 0344197645     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4991.00092     Document Type: Article

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