data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on … prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …

data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on … prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …

Using German panel data and relying on internal relocation, this paper investigates the anticipation and adaptation of … anticipation of SWB before the event of migration, but a highly significant and sustained positive adaptation effect. In general …

-Western Europe (Austria, Germany), Central-Eastern Europe (Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovenia), Northern Europe (Denmark, Sweden … relevanten Kovariablen. Fünf europäische Regionen werden untersucht: Mittelwesteuropa (Österreich, Deutschland), Mittelosteuropa …

How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several … childbirth had positive effects on life satisfaction, while separation, unemployment, and death of partner or child had negative …

happiness than the first-married during the transition phase. Moreover, while life satisfaction that increased in the years …

representative longitudinal data for Germany (1992- 2019) with about 570,000 observations for more than 88,000 individuals aged 16 … increases monotonically and progressively with age. Our results are similar for alternative measures of SWB (life satisfaction …

events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the … time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We cannot reject the hypothesis of complete adaptation to … marriage, divorce, widowhood, birth of child, and layoff. However, there is little evidence of adaptation to unemployment for …

freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to … human well-being and the phenomenon of adaptation. Many challenges, of course, remain. First, we are only at the beginning … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …