adult outcomes, including life satisfaction. We find that the effects of many aspects of childhood do not fade away over … adult life satisfaction at all ages. Of these, emotional health is the strongest. Childhood cognitive performance is more …To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this …

Using four cross-sectional data files for the United States and Europe we show that Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE … on wellbeing. These experiences impact a wide range of wellbeing measures in adulthood including satisfaction with many … aspects of everyday life, happiness and life satisfaction, self-assessed health, and are positively linked to measures of …

Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to … pattern. Those who have children at older ages or have more education have a particularly positive happiness response to a … first birth, and although the first two children increase happiness, the third does not. The results are similar in Britain …

experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15 years) childhood leads to lower life satisfaction at ages 18-31. Nevertheless …We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult … life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and …