Age, Health and Life Satisfaction Among Older Europeans

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 293-308

  Angelini, Viola ^a,b   Cavapozzi, Danilo ^c   Corazzini, Luca ^c,d   Paccagnella, Omar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NETSPAR   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^d BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ageing; Counterfactuals; Life satisfaction; Scale biases; Vignettes

Indexed keywords

AGE; ELDERLY POPULATION; HEALTH STATUS; LIFESTYLE; RANKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

EUROPE;

EID: 82555189819     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9882-x     Document Type: Article

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