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. …

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 …

affect well-being, and to what degree can they account for the life satisfaction path followed during young adulthood? To … transitions undergone during each age interval are examined. Life satisfaction at ages 22 to 40 follows a slight inverse U … overall life satisfaction. Partnership formation, the school-to-work transition, and parenting younger children are all …

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health … implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 to 2012 to show first that life … satisfaction falls with both the incidence and intensity of contemporaneous poverty. We then reveal that there is little evidence …

-quality panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. We also contribute to the rapidly growing literature on life satisfaction …-economic characteristics (with the exception of age) combined. Individuals with a high level of life satisfaction when initially interviewed … explanatory power in predicting future mortality and is therefore a useful measure of morbidity. Finally, we suggest that the …

decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer … differences between urban and rural areas with life satisfaction, rural areas exhibit a stronger lack of adaptation for subjective …We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two …