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What the period of chronic discontent in midlife has to do with the dawn of individuality and liberation

What the period of chronic discontent in midlife has to do with the dawn of individuality and liberation

By Alexandra Stanko

The U-shape of happiness

Happiness economists are still puzzled by a recurrent pattern that seems to be consistent in countries around the world. It’s a pattern that was first discovered in the 1990-ies by labor economists David Blanchflower of Dartmouth and Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick and has been confirmed ever since: The so-called ‘happ…

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