How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness?

Economic Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 497, 2004, Pages 641-659

  Ferrer i Carbonell, Ada ^a   Frijters, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 3242879717     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2004.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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