Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach
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Can alcohol make you happy? A subjective wellbeing approach.
There are surprisingly few discussions of the link between wellbeing and alcohol, and few empirical studies to underpin them. Policymakers have therefore typically considered negative wellbeing impacts while ignoring positive ones, used gross overestimates of positive impacts via a naïve 'consumer surplus' approach, or ignored wellbeing completely. We examine an alternative subjective wellbeing...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science & Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0277-9536
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.03.034