IS HAPPINESS U-SHAPED IN AGE EVERYWHERE? A METHODOLOGICAL RECONSIDERATION FOR EUROPE

IF 1.2 Q3 ECONOMICS

National Institute Economic Review Pub Date : 2021-08-31 DOI:10.1017/nie.2022.1

David Bartram

引用次数: 4

Abstract

A recent contribution to research on age and well-being asserts that the impact of age on happiness is ‘u-shaped’ virtually everywhere. I evaluate that finding for European countries, considering whether it is robust to alternative methodological approaches. The analysis excludes control variables that are affected by age (noting that those variables are not antecedents of age) and explores the relationship via models that do not impose a quadratic functional form. The article shows that these alternative approaches do not produce a u-shape ‘everywhere’: u-shapes are evident for some countries, but for others, the pattern is quite different.

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幸福无处不在吗？欧洲的方法论反思

最近对年龄和幸福感研究的一项贡献表明，年龄对幸福感的影响几乎无处不在。我对欧洲国家的这一发现进行了评估，考虑到它是否对替代方法论方法具有稳健性。该分析排除了受年龄影响的控制变量（注意到这些变量不是年龄的前因），并通过不强加二次函数形式的模型探讨了这种关系。文章表明，这些替代方法并不会“处处”产生u形：u形在一些国家很明显，但在另一些国家，模式截然不同。

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National Institute Economic Review ECONOMICS-

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3.70

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9.50%

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