The Origins of Happiness

Sources & Notes for Tables & Figures

age, age- squared, women, having children, year, and region dum-

mies. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed). Misery is defined as the bottom 9.9%

in the BHPS.

Table 16.2. How adult life- satisfaction (0– 10) is affected by current
circumstances (BHPS) (cross- section)
Source: Online Full Table 16.2 shows the basic regression.
Notes: Based on BHPS. However, for the coefficients on education and
unemployment we focus on people aged 25– 64; see Chapters 3 and

4. For quality of work (from ESS) see Chapter 4. For crime see Chap-
   ter 7. For depression and anxiety we use the average coefficients
   for the United States and Australia, which can be obtained from
   Table 6.3 and online Descriptive Statistics. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed).
   — means “not studied.”

Table 16.3. How adult life- satisfaction (0– 10) and behavior are pre-
dicted by child outcomes at 16 (British Cohort Study) (cross-
section)
Source: Online Full Table 16.3.
Notes: Based on BCS. Controls for family background, gender, and age
dummy. Bold: p < .10 (2- tailed). Crimes are assumed to be arrests ×
3.6.

Table 16.4. How children’s outcomes at age 16 are affected by fam-
ily and schooling (ALSPAC) (cross- section) (standardized coef-
ficients)
Source: Online Full Table 16.4.
Note: Controls for mother’s age at birth, parental marital status at
birth, child’s gender, ethnicity, birth order, number of siblings, birth
weight, born prematurely, and age in months at testing Bold: p < .10
(2- tailed). — means not significant at p < .10 (2- tailed).
SD (family income) = 0.57; SD (parents’ education) = 0.41; SD (father
unemployed) = 0.14; SD (mother work— 1 year) = 0.37; SD (mother
work— other years) = 0.37.

Table 16.5. How average life- evaluation in a country is affected by
country- level variables (Gallup World Poll) (cross- section)
Source: See sources and notes for Figure 8.1 and Table 8.1.