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A Structural Model of Well-being: with an application to German Data

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  • Bernard M.S. van Praag

    () (University of Amsterdam)

  • P. Frijters

    () (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • A. Ferrer-i-Carbonell

    () (University of Amsterdam)

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In this paper we attempt to explain individual, ordinally comparable,

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Paper provided by Tinbergen Institute in its series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers with number 00-053/3.

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Date of creation: 05 Jul 2000
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Handle: RePEc:dgr:uvatin:20000053

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  1. van Praag, Bernard M. S. & Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada, 2001. "Age-Differentiated QALY Losses," IZA Discussion Papers 314, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  2. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Bernard M. S. van Praag, 2001. "The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model for Monetary Appraisal," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 262, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
  3. Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada & van Praag, Bernard M. S., 2001. "The Subjective Costs of Health Losses due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model Appraisal," IZA Discussion Papers 313, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  4. Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada & van Praag, Bernard M. S., 2001. "Poverty in the Russian Federation," IZA Discussion Papers 259, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  5. Hanna Dudek, 2008. "Subjective aspects of economic poverty. Ordered response model approach," Working Papers 29, Department of Applied Econometrics, Warsaw School of Economics.
  6. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell & Bernard Van Praag, 2001. "Poverty in Russia," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 2(2), pages 147-172, June.

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