A note on interdependent happiness

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 713-721

  Bolle, Friedel ^a   Okhrin, Yarema ^b   Vogel, Claudia ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Happiness; Interdependent utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249135644     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2009.03.007     Document Type: Article

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