WELLBYs, cost-benefit analyses and the Easterlin Discount
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- Frijters, Paul, 2021. "WELLBYs, cost-benefit analyses and the Easterlin Discount," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 114605, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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