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Well-being Life-satisfaction Intervention Model Life-course Emotional health Conduct Intellectual performance Success A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines D - Microeconomics/D.D6 - Welfare Economics/D.D6.D60 - General H - Public Economics/H.H0 - General/H.H0.H00 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty/I.I3.I31 - General Welfare, Well-BeingSujets proches
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Richard Layard et al., « What predicts a successful life? A life-course model of well-being », HAL-SHS : économie et finance, ID : 10670/1.r436pb
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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.