TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blanchflower, David G.
AU  - Bryson, Alex
AU  - Lepinteur, Anthony
AU  - Piper, Alan
        TI  - Illbeing Among the Young in Europe:  Evidence from the COME HERE Panel
        PY  - 2026/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18803
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18803
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - subjective wellbeing
KW  - mental health
KW  - age
KW  - despair
KW  - panel data
        ER  -