Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58972 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6426
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete, whereas this is not the case for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar to those in previous work on German panel data. Equally, the time profiles with life satisfaction as the well-being measure are very close to those using a twelve-item scale of psychological functioning. As such, the phenomenon of adaptation may be a general one, rather than being only found in German data or using single-item well-being measures.
Subjects: 
life satisfaction
anticipation
adaptation
baseline satisfaction
labour market and life events
JEL: 
I31
J12
J13
J63
J64
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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