The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism

Public Choice

Volumn 138, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 317-345

  Frey, Bruno S ^a   Luechinger, Simon ^a   Stutzer, Alois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; LSA; Non market valuation; Subjective well being; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849145543     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-008-9361-3     Document Type: Article

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