SOURCES AND NOTES FOR
TABLES AND FIGURES
Table 0.1. Factors explaining the existing government’s vote share
(partial correlation coefficients)
Source: Ward (2015).
Notes: Eurobarometer data on life- satisfaction and standard election
data for most European countries since the 1970s. The regressors
include the government’s vote share in the previous election. Life-
satisfaction is from the latest survey before the election. Other vari-
ables are for the year of the election.
Figure 1.1. How adult life- satisfaction at 34 and 42 is affected by
adult outcomes at these ages (British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 1.1.
Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. Standardized coeffi-
cients. Information from BCS respondents at ages 34 and 42. Other
controls include child intellectual performance, behavioral, and
emotional health outcomes at age 16; parents’ education; family
income; parental involvement; mother’s mental health; family
break- up; mother’s work; father’s unemployment; number of sib-
lings; postmarital conception; gender; ethnicity; low birth weight;
and an age dummy (42). Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
Figure 1.2. How adult life- satisfaction is affected by child outcomes
(British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 1.2.
Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. Standardized coeffi-
cients. Information from BCS respondents at ages 34 and 42. For ad-
ditional controls see the notes to Figure 1.1. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
Figure 1.3. How adult life- satisfaction is affected by family back-
ground (British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 1.3.
Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. Standardized coeffi-
cients. Information from BCS respondents at ages 34 and 42. For ad-
ditional controls see the notes to Figure 1.1. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).