Happiness and altruism within the extended family

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1033-1051

  Schwarze, Johannes ^a   Winkelmann, Rainer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Panel data; Sympathy; Utility interdependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955069786     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-010-0326-8     Document Type: Article

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