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| Title |
What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life‐course Model of Well‐being
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Economic Journal, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12170 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Richard Layard, Andrew E Clark, Francesca Cornaglia, Nattavudh Powdthavee, James Vernoit |
| Abstract |
Policy-makers who care about well-being 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). We show that the most powerful childhood predictor of adult life-satisfaction is the child's emotional health, followed by the child's conduct. The least powerful predictor is the child's intellectual development. This may have 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. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 64 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 14 | 22% |
| United States | 12 | 19% |
| France | 3 | 5% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Chile | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Comoros | 1 | 2% |
| Thailand | 1 | 2% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 24 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 37 | 58% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 12 | 19% |
| Scientists | 10 | 16% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 307 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 298 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 61 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 47 | 15% |
| Researcher | 44 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 25 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 7% |
| Other | 58 | 19% |
| Unknown | 52 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 67 | 22% |
| Psychology | 65 | 21% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 51 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 12 | 4% |
| Other | 35 | 11% |
| Unknown | 60 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 145. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 January 2024.
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