Fig 1.
Timing of our analysis of the consequences of positive and negative affective forecasting errors on future life satisfaction levels and on life satisfaction expectations.
Table 1.
Descriptive statistics.
Fig 2.
Empirical distributions of St and .
Empirical distributions of St (A) and (B) in our sample. The number of observations is 75,231.
Fig 3.
Empirical distribution of the affective forecasting error .
Empirical distributions of the affective forecasting error in our sample. The number of observations is 75,231.
Table 2.
Distribution of beaten and unmet expectations by the baseline level of life satisfaction St-6.
Table 3.
Distribution of beaten and unmet expectations by a set of observable characteristics at t-6.
Table 4.
Distribution of beaten and unmet expectations for individuals becoming married, widowed, unemployed and disabled between t-6 and t-1.
Table 5.
Association between unmet and beaten life satisfaction expectations, St and .
Table 6.
Association between unmet and beaten income expectations, St and .