The U-Shape without Controls

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

No 271303, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Financial; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11
Date: 2009-03-27
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.271303

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