Women and happiness
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- Nicola Matteucci & Sabrina Vieira Lima, 2016. "Women and happiness," Chapters, in: Luigino Bruni & Pier Luigi Porta (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life, chapter 19, pages 419-447, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Keywords
Happiness; Subjective Well-Being; Psycological Well-Being; Gender gap; Determinants; Interdisciplinary review;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2015-01-19 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HME-2015-01-19 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2015-01-19 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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