Posted by Todd Zywicki:
WATER RUNS DOWNHILL?
It has been said that good economics consists of proving that water
runs downhill. I herewith present the abstract for a new economics
[1]article by David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald that came out on
the SSRN abstracting service today, entitled "Money, Sex and
Happiness: An Empirical Study" (I have bolded the key sentence):
ABSTRACT: The links between income, sexual behavior and reported
happiness are studied using recent data on a sample of 16,000 adult
Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly
positively in happiness equations. Higher income does not buy more
sex or more sexual partners. Married people have more sex than
those who are single, divorced, widowed or separated. The
happiness-maximizing number of sexual partners in the previous year
is calculated to be 1. Highly educated females tend to have fewer
sexual partners. Homosexuality has no statistically significant
effect on happiness.
References
1. http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=623334
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