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| Title: | | Antidepressants and age  |
| Authors: | | Blanchflower, David G. Oswald, Andrew J. |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion paper series // Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 5785 |
| Abstract: | | Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take antidepressants each year. The probability of antidepressant use is greatest among those who are middle-aged, female, unemployed, poorly educated, and divorced or separated. A hill-shaped age pattern is found. The adjusted probability of using antidepressants reaches a peak - approximately doubling - in people's late 40s. This finding is consistent with, and provides a new and independent form of corroboration of, recent claims in the research literature that human well-being follows a U-shape through life. |
| Subjects: | | well-being aging mental health depression happiness Easterlin paradox |
| JEL: | | I1 I12 I3 I31 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20110621445 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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