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On the determinants of happiness: a classification and regression tree (CART) approach

Sergio GallettaInstitute of Economics (IdEP), University of Lugano, Lugano, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 121-125 | Published online: 03 Aug 2015

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