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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Longitudinal evidence for a midlife nadir in human well-being: results from four data sets |
Author: | Cheng, T. Powdthavee, N. Oswald, A. |
Citation: | The Economic Journal, 2017; 127(599):126-142 |
Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 0013-0133 1742-0350 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Terence C. Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew J. Oswald |
Abstract: | There is a large amount of cross-sectional evidence for a midlife low in the life cycle of human happiness and well-being (a ‘U shape’). Yet no genuinely longitudinal inquiry has uncovered evidence for a U-shaped pattern. Thus some researchers believe the U is a statistical artefact. We re-examine this fundamental cross-disciplinary question. We suggest a new test. Drawing on four data sets, and only within-person changes in well-being, we document powerful support for a U-shape in unadjusted longitudinal data without the need for regression equations. The paper’s methodological contribution is to exploit the first-derivative |
Keywords: | life-cycle happiness |
Description: | First published: 15 October 2015 |
Rights: | © 2015 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12256 |
Grant ID: | NHMRC |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12256 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 7 Economics publications |
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