Sources & Notes for Tables & FiguresTable 2.3. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by own income
and comparator income (household panel data) (pooled cross-
section)
Source: Online Full Table 2.3.
Notes: People aged 25+. Robust standard errors in parentheses. Controls
for years of education, employment status, partnered, having chil-
dren, emotional and physical health, comparison education, com-
parison unemployment, comparison partnership, age, age- squared,
gender, year, and region. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
Table 2.4. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by own income,
comparator income, and own previous income (household
panel data) (fixed effects)
Source: Online Full Table 2.4.
Notes: People aged 25+. Robust standard errors in parentheses. For ad-
ditional controls see notes for Table 2.3. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
Table 2.5. How log income is affected by childhood outcomes and
family background (British Cohort Study)
Notes: People aged 34 and 42. Robust standard errors in parentheses.
Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
Figure 3.1. Highest educational attainment of the adult population
in advanced countries (%)
Source: Barro and Lee (2012).
Notes: Advanced countries = Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark,
Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Neth-
erlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Turkey, the
United States, and the United Kingdom.
Table 3.1. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by qualifications
(British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table 3.1.
Notes: People aged 34 and 42. Robust standard errors in parentheses.
Row (2) controls for income; employment status; criminality; mar-
ital status; physical health; mental health; child cognitive, behav-
ioral, 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. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).