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A New Approach to Quality of Life Measurement

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  • Robert Gillingham

    (Division of Price and Index Number Research, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

  • William S. Reece

    (Division of Price and Index Number Research, and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

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  • Robert Gillingham & William S. Reece, 1979. "A New Approach to Quality of Life Measurement," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 16(3), pages 329-332, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:16:y:1979:i:3:p:329-332
    DOI: 10.1080/713702532
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    3. Dionysia Lambiri & Bianca Biagi & Vicente Royuela, 2007. "Quality of Life in the Economic and Urban Economic Literature," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 84(1), pages 1-25, October.
    4. Oliviero Carboni & Paolo Russu, 2015. "Assessing Regional Wellbeing in Italy: An Application of Malmquist–DEA and Self-organizing Map Neural Clustering," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 122(3), pages 677-700, July.

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