The Origins of Happiness

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures

Figure 1.4. How adult outcomes are affected by child outcomes at
16 (British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 1.4.
Notes: Intellectual development is measured here at age 16. Robust
standard errors in parentheses. Standardized coefficients. Informa-
tion from BCS respondents at ages 34 and 42. For additional con-
trols see the notes to Figure 1.1. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).

Figure 1.5 (a). How the child’s outcomes at 16 are affected by fam-
ily background (Britain, ALSPAC)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 1.5 (a).
Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. Controls for mother’s age at
birth, parents’ marital status at birth, gender, ethnicity, firstborn child,
number of siblings, low birth weight, premature baby, and primary
school and secondary school fixed effects. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).

Figure 1.5 (b). How child outcomes at 16 are affected by family and
schooling (Britain, ALSPAC)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 1.5 (b).
Note: Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).

Table 2.1. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by adult outcomes
(British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table 2.1.
Notes: People aged 34 and 42. Robust standard errors are in paren-
theses. Controls for child intellectual, behavioral, and emotional
health outcomes at age 16; parents’ education; family income; pa-
rental involvement; mother’s mental health; family break- up; moth-
er’s work; father’s unemployment; number of siblings; postmarital
conception; gender; ethnicity; low birth weight; and an age dummy
(42). Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).

Table 2.2. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by log income
(household panel data)
Source: Online Full Table 2.2.
Notes: People aged 25+. Robust standard errors are in parentheses. The
regression controls for years of education, employment status, part-
nered, having children, physical and emotional health, comparison
income, comparison education, comparison unemployment, com-
parison partnership, age, age- squared, gender, year, and region fixed
effects. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).