Sources & Notes for Tables & FiguresNotes: People aged 25– 64. Robust standard errors in parentheses. Con-
trols for income, years of education, marital status, having children,
physical and emotional health, comparison income, comparison
education, comparison unemployment, comparison partnership,
age, age- squared, gender, year, and region dummies. Bold: p < .10
(2- tailed).
Figure 4.1. Adaptation to unemployment (household panel data)
(men)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 4.1.
Notes: Men aged 25– 64. Controls for income, marital status, having
children, age, age- squared, year, and region dummies. Vertical bands
represent 1.65 times the standard error of each point estimate.
Table 4.3. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by current and
previous unemployment (household panel data) (pooled cross-
section)
Source: Online Full Table 4.3.
Notes: People aged 25– 64. Robust standard errors in parentheses. Con-
trols for income, years of education, marital status, having children,
age, age- squared, gender, year, and region dummies. Bold: p < .10
(2- tailed).
Table 4.4. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by your own un-
employment and by the regional unemployment rate (house-
hold panel data) (pooled cross- section)
Source: Online Full Table 4.4.
Notes: People aged 25– 64. Robust standard errors in parentheses. See
notes for Table 4.2 for additional controls. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
Table 4.5. How an individual’s percentage of time unemployed up
to age 30 is affected by childhood factors (British Cohort Study)
Notes: People aged 34 and 42. Robust standard errors in parentheses.
Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
Table 4.6. Happiness in different activities (sample of Texan women)
Source: Kahneman, Krueger, et al. (2004).
Notes: More than one type of activity is possible at any one time.
Table 4.7. Happiness while interacting with different people (sam-
ple of Texan women)
Source: Kahneman, Krueger, et al. (2004).
Notes: More than one type of activity is possible at any one time.