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Europe, newer birth-cohorts are happier …
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, approximately 500,000 individuals. It checks that the key results are not due to cohort effects. Nor do we rely on simple life-satisfaction …
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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 But this empirical regularity has been replaced by a monotonic decrease in illbeing by age.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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, controlling for education, marital and labor force status. I also frequently find it without any controls at all. There is … satisfaction questions such as satisfaction with an individual's financial situation. Averaging across the 257 individual country …
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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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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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We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid …, although it fell slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which … has been rising in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the USA …
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The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid...
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institutional features of secondary and postsecondary education correlate, at the country level, with higher rates of university …
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This paper investigates the response of young people in the United States to state laws dictating the minimum age at which individuals could marry, with and without parental consent. We use variation across states and over time to document behavioral responses to laws governing the age of...
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