Young people today are stressed, depressed — and changing the fundamental pattern of happiness

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Young people today are stressed, depressed — and changing the fundamental pattern of happiness

The U-shaped happiness curve dictates that “happiness rises initially to a peak around age 30 and then declines into midlife and then rises again after age 70” according to David Blanchflower, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College.

Blanchflower co-wrote one of the initial research papers that introduced the concept of the U-shaped happiness curve back in 2008. Hundreds of studies since the early 1970s in many countries around the world have shown the same pattern.

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