HAPPINESS AND AGE—RESOLVING THE DEBATE

IF 1.2 Q3 ECONOMICS

National Institute Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI:10.1017/nie.2023.1

David G. Blanchflower, C. Graham, Alan T. Piper

引用次数: 4

Abstract

This article is a response to a piece in this journal, by David Bartram, which questions the validity of a vast literature establishing consistently a U-shaped relationship between age and happiness. There are 618 published studies that find U-shapes in that relationship in 145 countries, and only a handful that do not. Of the 30 countries that Bartram (2023, National Institute Economic Review, 1–15) examines, he finds U-shapes in 18. We show compelling evidence of U-shapes in the remaining dozen countries. Supporting evidence of a U-shape is found in objective measures including deaths of despair, depression, stress and pain that are worst in midlife.

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幸福与年龄——化解争论

这篇文章是对大卫·巴特拉姆在本杂志上发表的一篇文章的回应，该文章质疑了大量文献在年龄和幸福之间建立U型关系的有效性。已有618项已发表的研究在145个国家发现了这种关系中的U型，只有少数国家没有。Bartram（2023年，《国家研究所经济评论》，1-15）研究了30个国家，其中18个国家呈U型。我们在剩下的十几个国家展示了令人信服的U形证据。在客观指标中发现了U型的支持证据，包括中年最严重的绝望、抑郁、压力和疼痛的死亡。

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National Institute Economic Review ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.70

自引率

9.50%

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