In 40 years, I'm going to start a podcast and rip you a new one.

I'm Antela Duckworth.

I'm Stephen Dovner.

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

Today on the show, why are women's happiness levels so much lower than men's?

I as a woman was like, what?

Angie, there is a new working paper out by the economist David Blanchflower and Alex

Bryson about what's been called the female happiness paradox.

Are you familiar with the female happiness paradox?

I saw that paper, but I had to say prior to that paper, I had never heard of the female

happiness paradox.

It makes for a good title though.

It may be a little spicier than it is accurate, but here's how they define the paradox.

It's the notion that women are happier than men in happiness equations, but also more

unhappy than men in unhappiness equations.

We should say David Blanchflower and I believe Alex Bryson, but especially David Blanchflower

has been working on happiness measures for many, many years.

What this new paper argues in a nutshell is that the paradox that we just defined doesn't

actually exist.

And that it's an artifact of poor measurement.

This finding that the happiness paradox isn't real will not be of interest to most people,

probably just other happiness researchers.

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