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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2013
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7682
Verlag: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Zusammenfassung: 
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health. Next comes the child's conduct. The least powerful predictor is the child's intellectual development. This has obvious implications for educational policy. Among adult circumstances, family income accounts for only 0.5% of the variance of life-satisfaction. Mental and physical health are much more important.
Schlagwörter: 
conduct
emotional health
life-course
model
intervention
life-satisfaction
well-being
intellectual performance
success
JEL: 
A12
D60
H00
I31
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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