birth and early-life conditions on adulthood outcomes. These latter include both well-being and the stress hormone cortisol …. Employment and marital status are important adult determinants of well-being. Log family income and absence from school also … predict adult well-being, although their importance falls when controlling for adult and birth characteristics. Among the …

If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the … British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health …

answer these questions, longitudinal data from the Swedish Young Adult Panel Study are used for three cohorts interviewed in …

To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this … link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British … adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over …