Estimating linear birth cohort effects: revisiting the age-happiness profile

Santos, Cristina (2007). Estimating linear birth cohort effects: revisiting the age-happiness profile. Open University, Economics Department, Milton Keynes, UK.

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Abstract

This paper provides a simple way of accounting for linear birth cohort effects, together with linear age and calendar time effects. It relies on the discreteness of the data and on the fact that not all individuals are
born/interviewed in the same day. This creates an exogenous source of age variation within the same cohort that breaks the linear dependence between the three variables. This method is applied to a happiness equation and shows that, once a linear birth cohort term is included in the regression equation, together with linear age and calendar time terms, the robustly found U-shape profile of happiness in age disappears.

Item Type:	Other
ISSN:	1753-2590
Extra Information:	Open Discussion Paper in Economics - Number 58.
Keywords:	linear birth; cohort effects; age and calendar time effects; age-happiness profile;
Academic Unit/Department:	Social Sciences > Economics
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Innovation, Knowledge & Development research centre (IKD)
Item ID:	5987
Depositing User:	Cristina Santos
Date Deposited:	26 Jan 2007
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2010 23:40
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/5987

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