Happiness, satisfaction and socioeconomic conditions: Some international evidence

Handbook on the Economics of Happiness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 429-446

  Peiró, Amado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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