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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

wellbeing metrics - happiness and life satisfaction - is less clear cut. Differences vary over time, location, and with model … in happiness data regarding whether males are happier than females but find little variation by month in unhappiness data … reveal that women's happiness was more adversely affected by the COVID shock than men's, but also that women's happiness …

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Happiness and Aging in the United States

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

The past decade has brought increasing concern, in countries all over the world, of declines in mental health and well-being. Across countries, chronic depression and suicide rates peak in midlife. In the U.S., deaths of despair are most likely to occur in these years, and the patterns are...

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Wellbeing Rankings

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

reported in the World Happiness Index and are more comparable to those obtained with the Human Development Index …

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The Declining Mental Health Of The Young And The Global Disappearance Of The Hump Shape In Age In Unhappiness

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Xu, Xiaowei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Across many studies subjective well-being follows a U-shape in age, declining until people reach middle-age, only to rebound subsequently. Ill-being follows a mirror-imaged hump-shape. But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age. The reason for the...

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Taking the Pulse of Nations : a Biometric Measure of Well-being

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

A growing literature identifies associations between subjective and biometric indicators of wellbeing. These associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing (SWB) metrics to predict health and behavioral outcomes, have spawned increasing interest in SWB as an important concept in...

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Is Happiness U-shaped Everywhere? Age and Subjective Well-being in 132 Countries

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

additional evidence from an array of attitudinal questions that were worded slightly differently than standard happiness or life … estimates for advanced countries gives a similar minimum of 47.2. The happiness curve is everywhere …

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Unhappiness and age

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from six well-being data files on nearly ten million respondents across forty European countries and the United States. I use fifteen different individual characterizations of unhappiness including despair; anxiety; loneliness;...

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Now Unions Increase Job Satisfaction and Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

wellbeing including life satisfaction and happiness, several macro variables and various measures of trust. Union members are …

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The Mid-Life Dip in Well-Being : Economists (Who Find It) Versus Psychologists (Who Don't)!

Blanchflower, David G. - 2020

A number of studies - including our own - find a mid-life dip in well-being. We review a psychology literature that claims that the evidence of a U-shape is "overblown" and if there is such a decline it is "trivial". We find remarkably strong and consistent evidence across countries and US...

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International Happiness

Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

This paper describes the findings from a new, and intrinsically interdisciplinary, literature on happiness and human …

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