Happiness and domain satisfaction: New directions for the economics of happiness

Happiness, Economics and Politics: Towards a Multi-Disciplinary Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 70-94

  Easterlin, Richard A ^a   Sawangfa, Onnicha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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