Measuring inequality of subjective well-being: A Bayesian approach

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 700-708

  Hasegawa, Hikaru ^a   Ueda, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian ordered probit model; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Regretted subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052894038     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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