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La crisi di mezza eta? Esiste, ma dopo si torna a sorridere

27 November 2015

Happiness in life can be traced in the shape of a 'U'. We start with the enthusiasm of 20 years, then you hit the lowest point between 45 and 55, but from sixty things start to look up again. ... The latest confirmation comes from the study of three researchers Nattavudh Powdthavee, Terence Cheng and Andrew Oswald of the Universities of Melbourne and Warwick and the London School of Economics who have collected tens of thousands of questionnaires on the welfare of people between 20 and 70 years in the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany.

This article was published by La Stampa Societa on November 27, 2015
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Related publications
Longitudinal Evidence for a Midlife Nadir in Human Well-being: Results from Four Data Sets, Terence C. Cheng, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Andrew J. Oswald, The Economic Journal, October 2015
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12256

Related links
Nick Powdthavee webpage
Wellbeing Programme webpage

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