Table 3.

Four-step life satisfaction estimates using 2009–2019 Eurobarometers with no controls, just year dummies, and age < 70

	Age	T-statistic	Age2	T-statistic	N	Age minimum
Without controls	− 0.02030	79.20	0.00021	62.23	1,024,762	48
+ 8 cohort dummies	− 0.01944	29.49	0.00017	25.17	1,024,762	57
Western Europe
Austria	− 0.00930	5.98	0.00007	3.92	34,751	66
Belgium	− 0.01834	13.29	0.00020	12.99	34,800	46
Cyprus	− 0.02730	9.64	0.00024	9.64	19,417	57
Denmark	− 0.01210	9.58	0.00014	10.10	31,396	68
Finland	− 0.01409	10.02	0.00013	8.69	31,051	54
France	− 0.03193	20.75	0.00030	17.30	33,890	53
Greece	− 0.04138	22.36	0.00033	15.49	33,244	63
Iceland	− 0.01421	4.10	0.00009	2.08	6,337	79
Ireland	− 0.01450	9.90	0.00016	9.41	35,817	45
Italy	− 0.01088	6.95	0.00008	4.39	36,244	68
Luxembourg	− 0.01651	9.08	0.00019	8.96	19,109	43
Malta	− 0.01932	9.86	0.00016	7.41	17,685	60
Netherlands	− 0.01758	13.12	0.00018	12.03	35,034	49
Norway	− 0.01498	3.61	0.00017	3.57	3,451	44
Portugal	− 0.02166	15.17	0.00016	9.55	35,074	68
Spain	− 0.03215	20.86	0.00033	18.36	34,452	49
Sweden	− 0.01351	8.63	0.00016	9.12	27,794	42
UK	− 0.02288	17.31	0.00026	17.53	43,136	43
West Germany	− 0.01521	10.05	0.00017	9.85	31,428	45
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria	− 0.01575	9.04	0.00005	2.51	35,925	158
Croatia	− 0.02561	14.38	0.00020	9.58	33,898	64
Czech Republic	− 0.02217	16.36	0.00019	12.45	37,802	58
East Germany	− 0.01895	8.46	0.00019	7.39	18,150	50
Estonia	− 0.02210	14.43	0.00014	7.93	31,269	79
Hungary	− 0.03007	18.19	0.00027	14.40	35,899	75
Latvia	− 0.03841	26.81	0.00033	19.97	36625	58
Lithuania	− 0.04770	28.03	0.00042	21.24	30,364	57
Poland	− 0.01469	10.66	0.00009	5.57	35,625	82
Romania	− 0.01675	10.12	0.00009	4.79	37,533	93
Slovakia	− 0.02196	13.90	0.00019	13.90	36,296	58
Slovenia	− 0.01965	13.28	0.00014	8.61	34,132	70
Developing countries
Macedonia	− 0.03835	12.96	0.00040	11.80	14,886	48
Serbia	− 0.03210	10.09	0.00026	7.59	12,253	62
Turkish Cyprus	− 0.03368	9.38	0.00035	7.98	13662	48