More Data On The Midlife Crisis
An economist uses a broad range of data from 132 countries to understand why middle age is such a drag.
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In 2007, David Blanchflower co-authored with Andrew Oswald. They assembled evidence that midlife crises are real, widespread and not just made up by frustrated yuppie parents. Using data from about a half-million Americans and Europeans, Blanchflower and Oswald found that, all other
