ADULT
Log income (34)	Household disposable income per OECD adult equivaler (extra adults .7; children .5)
Educational achievement (34)	PhD or masters = 0.750 Degree = 0.486 A level = 0.237 GCSE = 0.188 CSE = 0.043 No qualifications = 0 (Values taken from a regression of male log full-time earnings on “having a family”, childhood emotion and conduct and 5 education dummies.)32
Employed (34)	Not unemployed at time of interview.
Has a partner (34)	Married/cohabiting with children = 0.685 Married/cohabiting without children = 0.530 Single with children = −0.004 Single without children = 0 (Values taken from a regression of life-satisfaction on 6 “success” variables plus 3 family dummies.)28
Good conduct (16-34)	Minus total times found guilty by a criminal court or formally cautioned at police station.	(subjects’ replies)
Self-perceived health (26)	Single Question with answers treated as 1-4
Emotional health (26)	Sum of replies to 24 questions	(subjects’ replies)
Life-satisfaction (34)	“Here is a scale from 0-10. On it “0” means that you are completely dissatisfied and “10” means that you are completely satisfied. Please tick the box with the number above it which shows how dissatisfied or satisfied you are about the way your life has turned out so far.”	Life-satisfaction (34)
CHILD
Intellectual performance	Age 5 Copy designs test score Age 10 British Ability Scales (BAS) total score Age 16 Whether any GCSE pass
Good conduct	Age 5 Sum of replies to 10 questions Age 10 Sum of replies to 10 questions Age 16 Sum of replies to 10 questions	(mothers’ replies) (mothers’ replies) (mothers’ replies)
Emotional health	Age 5 Sum of replies to 28 questions Age 10 Sum of replies to 24 questions Age 16 2/3 × replies to 22 questions  + 1/3 × replies to 8 questions	(mothers’ replies) (mothers’ replies) (subjects’ replies) (mothers’ replies)