Inequality and happiness in urban China

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 4, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Smyth, Russell ^a   Qian, Xiaolei ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Happiness; Inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449127175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15452921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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