The Origins of Happiness

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disabled=1 if registered as legally disabled. Australia: disabled=1 if

has health condition that limits ability to work.

Table 6.5. How physical and mental health are affected by childhood
outcomes and family (British Cohort Study) (β- coefficients)
Notes: BCS cross- section regressions at age 42 for number of physical
health conditions and has seen a doctor for emotional problems in
last year; and at age 34 for emotional health symptoms. R^2 = .0.010;
0.074; 0.022.

Table 7.1. How the probability of conviction is predicted by child-
hood problems
Source: Online Annex 7.1.
Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. Marginal changes in
probability. Probit estimates. Controls for ethnicity, mother’s age
and education, and whether the father is still present in the house-
hold. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).

Table 7.2. How the number of convictions by age 30 is affected
by qualifications, childhood outcomes at 10, and family back-
ground (British Cohort Study)
Source: Online Full Table 7.3.
Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. OLS estimates. For addi-
tional controls see notes for Table 7.1. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed). SD of
convictions is 1.0.

Table 7.3. How the probability of educational failure is predicted
by childhood problems at age 10
Source: Online Full Table 7.4.
Notes: Robust standard errors in parentheses. Marginal changes in
probability. Probit estimates. For additional controls see notes for
Table 7.1. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).

Figure 8.1. How national life- satisfaction is predicted by different
national variables
Source: Gallup World Poll.
Notes: Average data for 2009– 15 except for trust (mostly 2009). See
Helliwell, Huang, and Wang (2016), appendix table 10, column (8),
and table 5. N = 126, R^2 = 0.76.

Table 8.1. How national life- satisfaction (0– 10) is predicted by dif-
ferent national variables
Note: See notes for Figure 8.1.