experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender … women as evidenced by their average values for happiness, tiredness, and stress, their predicted values for the same three … emotions and via an aggregated statistic, the unpleasantness index. Counter-factual unpleasantness indices provide evidence …

sadness remains stable over most of adulthood and begins to increase in old age. In addition, the effects of age on happiness … were investigated; the cross-sectional evidence speaks for a steady decrease in happiness across age groups, but within …-person decline in happiness was only evident in old age. Together the findings provide further evidence for multidirectional age …