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alexandre afonso

18 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read

Life satisfaction by age using Eurobarometer data (since 1973): Portugal seems to be an outlier
content.tcmediasaffaires.com/LAF/lacom2019/…

In Portugal, happiness doesn't recover after hitting the bottom in the 40s-50s. It is usually U-shaped in most countries

It is the case of Italy as well, actually.

An in Italy the baseline is even lower.

@D_Blanchflower

I didn't make the graphs btw, this is an interesting paper by @D_Blanchflower

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