The medicine is worse than the disease: Comment on Delhey and Kohler's proposal to measure inequality in happiness using 'instrument-effect-corrected' standard deviations

Social Science Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 203-205

  Veenhoven, Ruut ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 82855181958     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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