Experienced versus decision utility of income: Relative or absolute happiness

Handbook on the Economics of Happiness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 185-208

  Vendrik, Maarten ^a   Hirata, Johannes ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

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