events, tend to return to some baseline level of wellbeing? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the … time of the event, we find significant lag and lead effects. We conclude that there is complete adaptation to divorce …, widowhood, birth of first child, and layoff. However, adaptation to marriage is only incomplete, and there is no adaptation to …

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 …

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 …

shows a common, quite similar, age-specific pattern of life satisfaction for both Britain and Germany that can be … characterized by three age stages. In the first stage, life satisfaction declines until approximately the fifth life decade. In 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 …

nonmaterial quality of life as well as self-reported satisfaction with life as dimensions. We find that one third of the German …-being distribution has decreased over time. Moreover, health as well as life satisfaction contribute quite substantially to …

satisfaction are used as an empirical approximation of true wellbeing. Our results indicate that well-being is generally lower …

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 …