Making people happy or making happy people? Questionnaire-experimental studies of population ethics and policy

DOI10.1007/S00355-017-1055-7MaRDI QIDQ1704071zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dean Spears

Publication date 8 March 2018

Published in Social Choice and Welfare (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-017-1055-7

zbMATH Keywords

population ethicshappinesspolicy framingquestionnaire experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Experimental studies (91A90) Welfare economics (91B15)

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