Life satisfaction and the economic and social characteristics of neighbourhoods
Journal of Population EconomicsPublished 12 April 2007
Michael A. Shields, Stephen Wheatley Price, Mark Wooden
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Life satisfaction, Neighbourhood effects, HILDA Survey, C25, I31, Z31,
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