This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model provides evidence that adaptation takes place within a relatively … short window of time: changes in living conditions are, for the most part, absorbed by an adjustment of the adaptation level …

-specific, depending on changing life goals and individual adaptation processes in adult development. In this empirical study we analyse … age heterogeneity with regard to current life satisfaction and life satisfaction domains (measured as satisfaction with … satisfaction, satisfaction with work, family life, and health with age. Thus, common mean level analyses on age effects yield only …

, M.A. (2014). Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys. Economic Journal 124 …

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 …