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. 2008 Aug;92(8-9):1833-1845.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.12.015.

The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Alan B Krueger  1 , David A Schkade
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The Reliability of Subjective Well-Being Measures

Alan B Krueger et al. J Public Econ. 2008 Aug.
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Scatterplot of Net Affect at Periods 1 and 2 with Quantile Regression Lines
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Mean Net Affect for Activities by Session
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