The U-Shape without Controls

This paper is a continuation of results in Blanchflower and Oswald (2008). It provides new evidence that well-being follows a curve through life. We use data on half a million randomly sampled individuals across eight major European nations. Importantly, we show that in this set of countries there is a U-shape even in unadjusted data, that is, without the inclusion of control variables. But we also advise against a focus on elementary bivariate associations.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Blanchflower, David G. ; Oswald, Andrew J.
Institutions:	Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Subject:	Happiness \| aging \| well-being \| mental-health \| depression \| life-course

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Series:	The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS).
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics ; I3 - Welfare and Poverty
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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