title: Hungry today, unhappy tomorrow? Childhood hunger and subjective wellbeing later in life.
abstract: I use anchoring vignettes to show that, on data for eleven European countries, exposure to episodes of hunger in childhood leads people to adopt lower subjective standards to evaluate satisfaction with life in adulthood. I also show that, as a consequence, estimates of the association between childhood starvation and late-life wellbeing that do not allow for reporting heterogeneity are biased towards finding a positive correlation. These results highlight the need to consider rescaling when drawing inference on subjective outcomes.
authors.affiliation: University of Padova, Italy. Electronic address: marco.bertoni@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bertoni
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D015362:Child Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006815:Hunger; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Anchoring vignettes; Hunger; Subjective wellbeing