A simple statistical method for measuring how life events affect happiness
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A simple statistical method for measuring how life events affect happiness.
BACKGROUND Life events-like illness, marriage, or unemployment-have important effects on people. But there is no accepted way to measure the different sizes of these events upon human happiness and psychological health. By using happiness regression equations, economists have recently developed a method. METHODS We estimate happiness regressions using large random samples of individuals. The ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1464-3685,0300-5771
DOI: 10.1093/ije/31.6.1139