Our high school years were, many of us may have been told, the best days of our lives. But that’s no longer the case, according to the work of Dartmouth University Professor David Blanchflower and colleagues – and the formerly inescapable “U curve” of well-being is now more of an uphill struggle towards happiness. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“There is a literature of at least 600 published papers suggesting that happiness is U-shaped in age and, conversely, that unhappiness is hump-shaped in age,” Blanchflower wrote in June 2024 in an article regarding the findings.

“Across a variety of datasets and measures, the finding of a midlife low has been consistently replicated,” he continued

“But not anymore,” Blanchf

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