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Our all-American belief that money really does buy happiness is roughly correct for about 85 percent of us. We know this thanks to the latest and perhaps final work of Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner who insisted on the value of working with those with whom we disagree. Professor Kahneman, who died last week at the age of 90, is best known for his pathbreaking explorations of human judgment and decision-making, and of how people deviate from perfect rationality. Beyond a threshold at or below $90,000, Professor Kahneman and Professor Deaton found, there is no further progress in average happiness as income increases. Eleven years later, Matthew Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, found exactly the opposite: People with higher income reported higher levels of average happiness.
Persons: Daniel Kahneman, Kahneman, Angus Deaton, Deaton, Matthew Killingsworth Organizations: Princeton, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
DINKs are proudly emerging as an aspirational class for young people — and they're ready to live it up. So when she set up her dating profile, Johnson included in her bio that she didn't want to have kids of her own. Amy Blackstone, the author of the 2019 book " Childfree by Choice ," said that the financial gap between DINKs and couples with kids wasn't solely because of the choice about children. DINKs, GINKs, " rich aunties ," and DINKWADs — DINKs with a dog — have become aspirational identities for younger generations. There are the DINKs who can seize the American dream and the parents who are struggling to stay afloat in a country without guaranteed paid leave or affordable childcare .
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For millennials, happiness would come from a $525,000 annual salary. Still, high inflation, interest rates, and student loans damper Americans' financial happiness. Here's what each generation said they need to earn annually, as well as the net worth required, to achieve happiness:Gen Z: $128,000, with a net worth of $487,711Millennials: $525,000, with a net worth of $1,699,571Gen X: $130,000, with a net worth of $1,213,759Boomer: $124,000, with a net worth of $999,945AdvertisementMen said they needed to earn $381,000 annually, while women said $183,000 would make them happy. The latest economic data could make Americans' financial happiness goals more achievable. AdvertisementThe latest Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve, however, had a glimmer of hope for millennials when it comes to net worth.
Persons: , Daniel Kahneman, Matthew Killingsworth, Angus Deaton, millennials Organizations: Service, Penn's Wharton School, Federal, Consumer Finances, Federal Reserve
While money certainly helps bring joy and satisfaction to your life, it won't have the same impact on everyone. The researchers first set out to determine why one study showed a happiness plateau while the other did not. For the new study, the researchers decided to look at incomes above or below $100,000 as a starting point. Since Killingsworth's study categorized that salary in the $90,000 to $100,000 range, they decided to simply look at incomes above or below $100,000. An "unhappy minority" revealed itself, however, as the researchers found the most explicit happiness plateau among the least happy 15 to 20% of people.
It found that for the vast majority of people, money does buy you happiness. Meanwhile, happiness "increases steadily" along with income among the rest of the population, Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers found. For the happiest 30% of people, happiness rises at an accelerated rate beyond $100,000. "In other words, the bottom of the happiness distribution rises much faster than the top in that range of incomes. Killingsworth, Kahneman, and Mellers noted, however, that the correlation between income and well-being was "weak, even if statistically robust."
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