Well-being paradox: comparing the age-happiness relationship across Japan, China, and the US
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Well-being paradox; Happiness; Japan; China; United States;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- 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
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