Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244530 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 8/2017
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
We use a rich longitudinal data set following a cohort of Swedish women from age 10 to 49 to analyse the effects of birth and early-life conditions on adulthood outcomes. These latter include both well-being and the stress hormone cortisol. Employment and marital status are important adult determinants of well-being. Log family income and absence from school also predict adult well-being, although their importance falls when controlling for adult and birth characteristics. Among the birth characteristics, we find that high birth weight (>4.3kg) affects adult well-being. We predict the level of adult cortisol only poorly, and suggest that the relationship between life satisfaction and cortisol is non-monotonic: both high and low cortisol are negatively correlated with life satisfaction. The results from an OLS life satisfaction regression and a multinomial logit of high or low cortisol (as compared to medium) are more similar to each other.
Subjects: 
life satisfaction
cortisol
birth-cohort data
adult
child and birth outcomes
multivariate imputation by chained equations
JEL: 
A12
D60
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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