The U-shaped relationship between happiness and age: evidence using world values survey data

• Main Author: Beja, Edsel L, Jr
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Happiness; Age; U-shaped relationship; Multilevel regression; Economics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/11; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-017-0570-z
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The paper retests the U-shaped relationship between happiness and age using the cross-classified multilevel regression procedure and the World Values Survey data. The analysis accounts for period and cohort effects. The results reconfirm the pattern that happiness is U-shaped in the life course. Tha...