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The mystery of the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age

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Paul Frijters () (QUT)
Tony Beatton () (QUT)

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In this paper we address the puzzle of the relation between age and happiness. Whilst the majority of psychologists have concluded there is not much of a relationship at all, the economic literature has unearthed a possible U-shape relationship. In this paper we replicate the U-shape for the German SocioEconomic Panel (GSOEP), and we investigate several possible explanations for it.

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Paper provided by National Centre for Econometric Research in its series NCER Working Paper Series with number 26.

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Date of creation: 02 Aug 2008
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Keywords: Happiness methodology unobservables latent variable

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C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare

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