of future life satisfaction across six subsequent 5-year time intervals. As expected, we observed few age differences in … current life satisfaction, but stronger age differences in future expectations: Younger adults anticipated improved future … life satisfaction, overestimating their actual life satisfaction 5 years later. By contrast, older adults were more …

experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched to subsequent … realizations, I find that future life satisfaction is strongly overestimated when young and underestimated during old age. This …

sadness remains stable over most of adulthood and begins to increase in old age. In addition, the effects of age on happiness … were investigated; the cross-sectional evidence speaks for a steady decrease in happiness across age groups, but within …-person decline in happiness was only evident in old age. Together the findings provide further evidence for multidirectional age …

.g., satisfaction with family life, leisure, income, work, health) and affective (e.g., happiness, anger, worry, sadness) components of … contrast to previous papers in the literature, according to which commuting is bad for overall life satisfaction, we find no … evidence that commuting in general is associated with a lower life satisfaction. Rather, it appears that longer commutes are …