Well-being over the life span: Semiparametric evidence from british and german longitudinal data

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 154-167

  Wunder, Christoph ^a   Wiencierz, Andrea ^b   Schwarze, Johannes ^c   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 84885086965     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00222     Document Type: Article

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