Happiness Inequality: How Much is Reasonable?

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 257-269

  Gandelman, Néstor ^a   Porzecanski, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ORT URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Happiness; Income inequality; Relative risk aversion

Indexed keywords

INCOME; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

EID: 84872500814     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-011-9929-z     Document Type: Article

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