Why the Happiest Moments in Life are Sometimes Short? The Role of Psychological Traits and Socio-Economic Circumstances
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Keywords
Subjective well-being; SHARELIFE; Retrospective data; Cox proportional hazards model; Big 5;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2024-04-22 (Economics of Happiness)
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