Television Viewing, Satisfaction and Happiness: Facts and Fiction
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Keywords
satisfaction; rationality; media consumption; television;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CUL-2009-08-08 (Cultural Economics)
- NEP-HAP-2009-08-08 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-NEU-2009-08-08 (Neuroeconomics)
- NEP-SOC-2009-08-08 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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