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Does marriage make people happy, or do happy people get married?
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- Stutzer, A., & Frey, B. S.
- Venue
- The Journal of Socio-Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-04
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 326-347
- ISSN
- 1053-5357 (ISSN-L)
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- W3121912189
- Cited by
- 818
- References
- 69
- FWCI
- 37.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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