%0 Report
        %A Blanchflower, David G.
%A Oswald, Andrew J.
        %T Antidepressants and Age
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5785
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5785
        %X 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.
        %K happiness
%K well-being
%K aging
%K mental health
%K depression
%K Easterlin paradox