Table 1.

Earnings equations: Linear regression models of log income at age 29 (2008) on lagged subjective well-being and covariates

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4
Independent variable	Coeff.	P value	Coeff.	P value	Coeff.	P value	Coeff.	P value
Positive affect (1994)	0.033	0.002					0.014	0.314
Positive affect (1996)			0.044	0.000			0.030	0.037
Life satisfaction (2001)					0.051	0.000	0.047	0.000
Positive affect (2008)	0.092	0.000	0.089	0.000	0.086	0.000	0.074	0.000
Male	0.149	0.000	0.146	0.000	0.147	0.000	0.145	0.000
Age	0.089	0.000	0.084	0.000	0.088	0.000	0.085	0.000
College	0.210	0.000	0.216	0.000	0.212	0.000	0.201	0.000
IQ	0.038	0.001	0.037	0.004	0.043	0.000	0.030	0.022
Medication	0.013	0.174	0.013	0.253	0.013	0.197	0.014	0.211
Height	0.036	0.008	0.039	0.011	0.035	0.011	0.037	0.016
Self-esteem (1994)	0.057	0.000					0.041	0.003
Self-esteem (1996)			0.044	0.001			0.015	0.306
Self-esteem (2001)					0.054	0.000	0.030	0.017
Black	−0.068	0.000	−0.064	0.000	−0.063	0.000	−0.065	0.000
Hispanic	0.056	0.000	0.065	0.000	0.051	0.000	0.064	0.000
Asian	0.062	0.000	0.063	0.000	0.061	0.010	0.064	0.000
Intercept	10.15	0.000	10.14	0.000	10.15	0.000	10.14	0.000
N	11,080		8,620		11,086		8,585
R2	0.12		0.12		0.13		0.13

Variable coefficients (Coeff.) are standardized, and P values are presented. Variable definitions are in Table S2.