Fueron felices y comieron perdices

Felicidad y matrimonio van, aunque no se lo crean, de la mano. De hecho, estar felizmente casado podría tener un valor equivalente a 100.000 dólares al año.

.....the dollar value of a lasting marriage is derived by comparing the happiness of the average married woman to that of the average widow. The researchers found that making the widow just as happy as she was when married would take an additional $100,000 annually over her current income. Like most economic measures of happiness, the dollar value derived by Blanchflower, a Dartmouth College professor, and Oswald, who teaches at Warwick University, comes from a hypothetical comparison involving a person of average income who moves from one situation to another.

Artículo completo disponible en Forbes.

Paper original, de David Blanchflower y Andrew Oswald, aquí.

¿El valor de una vida sexual satisfactoria? Aproximadamente 50.000 euros al año. Eso dicen.