Happiness and Time Preference: The Effect of Positive Affect in a Random-Assignment Experiment

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  The American Economic Review

• Publication date

  2011-12-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1257/AER.101.7.3109
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