Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/244545 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 13/2018
Publisher: 
Örebro University School of Business, Örebro
Abstract: 
Our study is, to our knowledge, the first joint analysis of subjective and objective measures of well-being. Using a rich longitudinal data from the mothers pregnancy until adulthood for a birth cohort of children who attended school in Örebro during the 1960s, we analyse in a first step how subjective (self-assessed) and objective (cortisol-based) measures of well-being are related to each other. In a second step, life-course models for these two measures are estimated and compared with each other. Despite the fact that our analysis is largely exploratory, our results suggest interesting possibilities to use objective measures to measure well-being, even though this may imply a greater degree of complexity.
Subjects: 
subjective and objective well-being
general life satisfaction
cortisol
birth-cohort data
adult
child and birth outcomes
multivariate imputation
JEL: 
A12
D60
I31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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