Abstract
This study is unique in exploiting 12 youth cohorts (aged 11–15) from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) spanning 1996–2017 to investigate the gender gradient of adolescent life satisfaction. We find robust evidence of a cross-cohort gender gap particularly at the extremes of the adolescent life satisfaction distribution. Male adolescents are significantly more likely to report complete life satisfaction (by around 6%–14%) and females to report dissatisfaction (by around 3%–7%) indicating a higher female depression propensity. An intra-household gender gap is found for female adolescents raised with opposite sex siblings. Previous period life satisfaction is the strongest determinant of prospective higher self-reported male satisfaction levels.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics |
| Early online date | 30 Jun 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - 7 Nov 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:I gratefully acknowledge partial financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad through the research project ECO2016‐77200‐P.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Department of Economics, University of Oxford and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Economics and Econometrics
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
