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Education and happiness: an alternative hypothesis

Boris NikolaevDepartment of Economics, Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford, GA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pavel RusakovOxford College of Emory University, GA, USA
Pages 827-830 | Published online: 30 Nov 2015

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