Subjective Well-Being across the Lifespan in Europe and Central Asia
This paper uses data from the Integrated Values Survey, the Life in Transition Survey, and the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to analyze the relation between age and subjective well-being in the Europe and Central Asia region. Although the r...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24835059/subjective-well-being-across-lifespan-europe-central-asia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22462 |
| Summary: | This paper uses data from the Integrated
Values Survey, the Life in Transition Survey, and the Russia
Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to analyze the relation
between age and subjective well-being in the Europe and
Central Asia region. Although the results generally confirm
the findings of previous studies of a U-shaped relation
between subjective well-being and age for most of the
lifecycle, the paper also finds that well-being declines
again after people reach their 60s and 70s, giving rise to
an S-shaped relation across the entire lifespan. This
pattern generally remains robust for most of the
cross-sectional and panel analyses. Hence, despite
significant heterogeneity in the pattern of well-being
across the lifespan in the Europe and Central Asia region,
the paper does not observe high levels of cross-country or
cross-cohort variation. |
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