Well-being over time in Britain and the USA

Journal of Public Economics - Tập 88 - Trang 1359-1386 - 2004
David G. Blanchflower1, Andrew J. Oswald2
1Department of Economics, Dartmouth College and NBER, 6106 Rockefeller Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
2Department of Economics, Warwick University, Warwick, UK

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