Heresy or enlightenment? The well-being age U-shape effect is flat
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.05.013
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Keywords
Life satisfaction; Well-being; Age U-shape;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
- C42 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Survey Methods
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