Is happiness different from flourishing? Cross-country evidence from the ESS

Revue d'Economie Politique

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-34

  Clark, Andrew E ^a   Senik, Claudia ^a  

^a PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

Author keywords

Eudaimonia; European social survey; Happiness; Life satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959617937     PISSN: 03732630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/redp.211.0017     Document Type: Review

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