The Rising Well-Being of the Young

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

No 6102, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Many observers believe that times are growing harder for young people in Western society. This paper looks at the evidence and finds that conventional wisdom appears to be wrong. Using the U.S. General Social Surveys and the Eurobarometer Surveys, the paper studies the reported happiness and life-satisfaction scores of random samples of young men and women. " The data cover the USA and thirteen European countries. Our main finding is that from the 1970s to the 1990s the well-being of the young increased quite markedly. A number of possible explanations are considered.

Date: 1997-07
Note: LS
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (32)

Published as "A Longitudinal Analysis of the Young Self-Employed in Australia and the United States", SBE, Vol. 6, no. 1 (1994): 1-19.
Published as The Rising Well-Being of the Young , David G. Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald. in Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries , Blanchflower and Freeman. 2000

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6102.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Chapter: The Rising Well-Being of the Young (2000)
Working Paper: The Rising Well-Being of the Young (1998)
Working Paper: The Rising Well-Being of the Young (1997)
Working Paper: The Rising Well-Being of the Young (1997)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:6102

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6102

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().