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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program … more time daily in front of a screen on the internet or their smartphone, and that within-person increases in poor mental … mental health, and because the results caution against simply using the presence of the internet in the household, or low …

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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States

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

We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...

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The Consequences of Chronic Pain in Mid-Life : Evidence from the National Child Development Survey

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

Using data from all those born in a single week in 1958 in Britain we track the consequences of short pain and chronic pain in mid-life (age 44) on health, wellbeing and labor market outcomes in later life. We examine data taken at age 50 in 2008, when the Great Recession hit and then five years...

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The Female Happiness Paradox

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

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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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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Does Pain Lead to Job Loss? A Panel Study for Germany

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

The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data containing data on pain and labor market status has meant less is known about the direction of any causal linkage. Those longitudinal studies that do examine the link between pain and...

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