Piper Alan T
Universität Flensburg, Internationales Institut für Management und ökonomische Bildung, Munketoft 3B, 24937 Flensburg, Germany.
Soc Sci Med. 2015 Oct;143:54-61. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.08.042. Epub 2015 Aug 28.
Much of the work within economics attempting to understand the relationship between age and well-being has focused on the U-shape, whether it exists and, more recently, potential reasons for its existence. This paper focuses on one part of the lifecycle rather than the whole: young people. This focus offers a better understanding of the age-well-being relationship for young people, and helps with increasing general understanding regarding the U-shape itself.
The empirical estimations employ both static and dynamic panel estimations, with the latter preferred for several reasons.
The empirical results are in line with the U-shape, and the results from the dynamic analysis indicate that this result is a lifecycle effect.
经济学领域中许多试图理解年龄与幸福感之间关系的研究都聚焦于U型关系，探讨它是否存在，以及最近其存在的潜在原因。本文关注的是生命周期的一个阶段而非整个生命周期：年轻人。这种关注有助于更好地理解年轻人的年龄与幸福感之间的关系，并有助于增进对U型关系本身的总体理解。
实证估计采用了静态和动态面板估计，出于若干原因，更倾向于使用后者。
实证结果符合U型关系，动态分析的结果表明这一结果是一种生命周期效应。
