Heresy or enlightenment? The well-being age U-shape effect is flat

Economics Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 235-238

  Kassenboehmer, Sonja C ^a,b   Haisken DeNew, John P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age U shape; Life satisfaction; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861869557     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.05.013     Document Type: Article

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