How to Make America's Young People Happier Again

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  Pushkin.

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  When the team behind the annual World Happiness Report finds that Finns are happier than Danes,

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  or that Canadians are happier than Americans, those broad results hide a ton of nuance.

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  We've been unpacking some of the report's more interesting details in our last few episodes,

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  but today we're going to tackle one of the most striking findings in this year's report.

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  What's been happening to young people's happiness over the last few years?

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  And the picture is pretty complicated.

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  The good news is that youth happiness has been rising in certain parts of the world.

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  But the bad news is that some of the wealthy nations out there have seen worrying declines.

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  And that includes the young people where I live in North America.

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  But the big question is why?

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  And what can be done to halt this awful slide?

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  If anyone can help us figure it all out, it's Yana Manuel Denev.

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  Hey, Laurie.

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  I'm a professor of economics and behavioral science at the University of Oxford,

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  where I also lead the Wellbeing Research Centre.

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  He's also one of the co-authors of the World Happiness Report and the lead author of the chapter that focused specifically on Gen Z.

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  This year's report, we focused in on the age categories.

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  And my team and I, we've really worked hard on child and adolescent wellbeing.

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  And so the way we define child and adolescent, it is up for debate,

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