Frijters, Paul, Johnston, David W. and Shields, Michael A. (2014) Does childhood predict adult life satisfaction? Evidence from British cohort surveys. The Economic Journal, 124 (580). F688-F719. ISSN 0013-0133
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We investigate the extent to which childhood characteristics are predictive of adult life satisfaction using data from two British cohort studies. In total, variables observed up to age 16 predict around 7% of the variation in average adult life satisfaction. Adding contemporaneous adulthood variables increases the predictive power to 15.6%, while adding long lags of life satisfaction increases it to 35.5%. Overall, we estimate that around 30–45% of adult life satisfaction is fixed, suggesting that 55–70% is transitory in nature, and that a wide range of observed childhood circumstances capture about 15% of the fixed component.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Royal Economic Society |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2018 16:08 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Feb 2024 23:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86678 |
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