Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 326-347

  Stutzer, Alois ^a   Frey, Bruno S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Division of labor; Marriage; Selection; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 33144485396     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2005.11.043     Document Type: Article

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