TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blanchflower, David G
AU  - Oswald, Andrew J
TI  - The Rising Well-Being of the Young
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6102
PY  - 1997
Y2  - July 1997
DO  - 10.3386/w6102
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6102
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6102.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David G. Blanchflower
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics
6106 Rockefeller Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755-3514
Tel: 603/646-2536
Fax: 603/646-2122
E-Mail: David.G.Blanchflower@Dartmouth.EDU

Andrew Oswald
Department of Economics
and also CAGE Research Center
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
England
Tel: 44-01203-5235
Fax: 44-01203-5230
E-Mail: a.j.oswald@warwick.ac.uk
M1  - published as David G. Blanchflower, Andrew Oswald. "The Rising Well-Being of the Young," in David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman, editors, "Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries" University of Chicago Press (2000)

M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1998-05-01
AB  - 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.
ER  -