systematically overestimate the life satisfaction associated with living in their privately owned property. To identify potential … prediction errors, we compare people's forecasts of their life satisfaction in five years' time with their current realizations …. We find that, while moving into a purchased dwelling is associated with higher life satisfaction, people systematically …

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

satisfaction with their actual life satisfaction five years later on. This overoptimism also holds for those entrepreneurs who … reflected in higher working hours than desired and the drop in leisure satisfaction. …