The Origins of Happiness

Chapter 2 Table 2.5. How log income is affected by childhood outcomes and family background (British Cohort Study) Units β- coef ...

Income A*– C) at age 16. Yet this one characteristic predicts that you receive an extra 30% on your income.^29 By contrast behav ...

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3 Education We must educate our masters. — Robert Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1868– 73) Education is the route to a caree ...

Chapter 3 analysis. So what is the direct impact of extra education per se on how much we enjoy our lives? The measure of educat ...

Education How Education Affects Life- Satisfaction In the British Cohort Study, education is well correlated with life- satisfac ...

Chapter 3 in Part II of the book. The idea is very simple and explained more fully in online Annex 3b. Suppose that the full est ...

Education British, German, and US estimates are similar; the Austra- lian estimate is actually negative (see Table 3.3). Taken t ...

Chapter 3 it is larger than the total of positive effects. In the other countries it is also substantial. So what is happening h ...

Education 0.01 points to the social return from one year of education for one person.^10 Finally, education reduces crime. We in ...

Chapter 3 Table 3.5. How highest qualification (standardized) is affected by childhood outcomes and family background (British C ...

Education variables have a particularly large effect, except for mother’s mental health and being white, which in that cohort wa ...

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4 Work and Unemployment The insupportable Labour of doing nothing. — Sir Richard Steele Full- time workers spend at least a quar ...

Chapter 4 people are with all the different possible positions in the labor force. In Table 4.1 we compare the life- satisfactio ...

Work and Unemployment estimates now tells us what happens on average every time the individual changes his or her labor- force s ...

Chapter 4 finding of previous literature,^7 and here we investigate it for men using the household panel data.^8 We study those ...

Work and Unemployment Very similar estimates are found in the household panel data. In Table 4.3 we add to each pooled cross- se ...

Chapter 4 each previous year of unemployment is reducing cur - rent life- satisfaction by about 0.1 point. Thus unemploy- ment c ...

Work and Unemployment But the spillovers on the rest of the population are severe. So if we look at the total well- being cost w ...