Chapter 2. Early Skills and Adult Life Satisfaction Second, we analyze the same sample across all adult years to rule out sample-specific effects on the relationship between early skills and adult life satisfaction. This does not change our main conclusions, although, like in other specifications, the relationship between early reading skills and life satisfaction at age 46 becomes insignificant. Third, we perform logistic regressions as a robustness check. While we treat our outcome variables as continuous, they are originally measured categorically. Results of the logistic regressions generally support our main findings. However, we note that the relationship between early math skills and adult job satisfaction differs. Logistic regression estimates show that a one SD increase in math skills is associated with a 14.7% increase in the probability of being satisfied in your job. 2.5 Conclusion This chapter concludes that ten-year-olds’ reading and math skills significantly relate to adult life satisfaction. The relationship remains stable for math skills across adulthood but decreases for reading skills in this period of life. These associations are partly mediated by income and daily functioning, with daily functioning being the most important mediator. Furthermore, we find that both early reading and math skills significantly relate to satisfaction with general health, financial management, and emotional satisfaction in adulthood. Early reading skills negatively relate to relationship happiness at age 29. Our results show that measures of early skills are informative for pol36
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