The Origins of Happiness

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures

Figure 4.2. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by weekly hours
of work— compared with 0– 10 hours (household panel data)
(pooled cross- section)
Source: Online Full Table for Figure 4.2.
Notes: People aged 25– 64. Sample restricted to paid workers. For addi-
tional controls see notes for Table 4.2.

Table 4.8. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by various dimen-
sions of workplace quality (European Social Survey)
Source: Online Full Table 4.8. Notes: People aged 25– 64. Robust stan-
dard errors in parentheses. Controls for gender, age, age- squared,
years of education, immigrant status, marital status, and number of
children. All right- hand side variables are (1, 0) dummies. Bold: p <
.10 (2- tailed).

Table 5.1. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by family status
(British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table 5.1.
Notes: People aged 34 and 42. Robust standard errors in parentheses.
Controls for income; qualifications; noncriminality; employment
status; physical health; mental health; child cognitive, behavioral,
and emotional health outcomes at age 16; parents’ education; fam-
ily 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).

Table 5.2. How life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by family status—
compared with single (household panel data)
Source: Online Full Table 5.2.
Notes: People aged 25+. Robust standard errors in parentheses. Con-
trols for income, years of education, employment status, having
children, physical and emotional health, comparison income, com-
parison education, comparison unemployment, comparison part-
nership, age, age- squared, gender, year, and region dummies. Bold:
p < .10 (2- tailed).

Figure 5.2. Adaptation to partnership (household panel data)

Figure 5.3. Adaptation to separation (household panel data)

Figure 5.4. Adaptation to widowhood (household panel data)
Source to Figures 5.2– 5.4: Online Full Tables for Figures 5.2– 5.4.