Income and well-being: How big is the gap between the rich and the poor?

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-78

  Lucas, Richard E ^a   Schimmack, Ulrich ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTM   (Canada)

Author keywords

Effect sizes; Happiness; Income; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 58549102483     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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