shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be …. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the analysis … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In the …

affect well-being, and to what degree can they account for the life satisfaction path followed during young adulthood? To … answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study are used for three cohorts interviewed in … transitions undergone during each age interval are examined. Life satisfaction at ages 22 to 40 follows a slight inverse U …

using a large panel data set and controlling for observed and unobserved individual characteristics, we find a large day …

prominent events - is also to discover for life satisfaction before and after retirement in Germany. …Quality of life and satisfaction with life are of particular importance for individuals as well as for society … concerning the "demographic change" with now longer retirement periods. This study will contribute to the life satisfaction …

satisfaction that the individual reports at age 30, so that past unemployment scars. We also identify the childhood circumstances …

how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major life events. Based on individual panel … data, we compare people's forecast of their life satisfaction in five years' time to their actual realisations later on …

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 investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which …

; relative income ; life satisfaction ; German Socio Economic Panel Study ; SOEP … questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask …