Learning about one's relative position and subjective well-being

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1711-1718

  Miles, Daniel ^a   Rossi, Máximo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; WAGE; WELFARE IMPACT;

EID: 34547551372     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600660721     Document Type: Article

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