The happiness - Income paradox revisited

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 52, 2010, Pages 22463-22468

  Easterlin, Richard A ^a   McVey, Laura Angelescu ^a   Switek, Malgorzata ^a   Sawangfa, Onnicha ^a   Zweig, Jacqueline Smith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Easterlin paradox; Life satisfaction; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTION; EUROPE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HAPPINESS; INCOME; LIFE SATISFACTION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; SOUTH KOREA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELLBEING;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; INCOME; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 78651061518     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015962107     Document Type: Article

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