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What makes a child happy? The link between family Income, social networks and subjective well-being in Vietnam
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Using cross-sectional data from the Young Lives survey for a cohort of 12-year-old children in Vietnam, we find that children from ethnic minority and poor households have lower subjective well-being, on average, than those from ethnic majority and non-poor households. Absolute income is positively correlated with subjective well-being but no longer is significant once relative income is controlled for. There is some evidence that income-happiness is an inverted U-shape relationship, which...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Department for International Development (DFID)
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Nguyen, N
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R8544
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
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Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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- Young Lives Publisher's website
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- ISBN:
- 9781904427841
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- English
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