@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18803,
            	author={Blanchflower, David G. and Bryson, Alex and Lepinteur, Anthony and Piper, Alan},
            	title={Illbeing Among the Young in Europe:  Evidence from the COME HERE Panel},
            	year={2026},
	month={Jul},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18803},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18803},
	abstract={A substantial literature finds poor mental health is hump-shaped with respect to age, whilst subjective wellbeing is U-shaped.  Recent cross-sectional studies indicate a change in this relationship driven by the declining mental health of the young.  We contribute to this literature by re-examining the age patterns in subjective wellbeing and illbeing for individuals in five European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden).  We do so with fifteen waves of the COME-HERE (CH) panel survey for 2020-2025 plus data from the Global Minds (GM) surveys of 2020-2026 for the same countries.  We show that wellbeing rises and illbeing declines in a roughly monotonic fashion with age. This is found both with cross-section data from the CH and GM data, and from longitudinal plots of person fixed effects by age in the CH data.},
	keywords={subjective wellbeing;mental health;age;despair;panel data},
            }