Economic growth and subjective well-being: Reassessing the Easterlin paradox

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Volumn , Issue SPRING, 2008, Pages 1-87

  Stevenson, Betsey ^a   Wolfers, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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