Operationalizing the capability approach to assessing well-being
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Keywords
Capability approach; Well-being; Child development; Nonlinearities; Interactions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- B59 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Other
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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