Evaluating marriage
At last, economists have put a price on love.
An ever-growing body of research shows that most of us adapt quickly to improvements in our finances; we simply learn to covet a higher class of goods. But the happiness-inducing qualities of a solid marriage last and last. […] How much money would it take to make you as happy as a married couple in love? No one can offer a precise number, of course, but that hasn’t stopped economists David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald from trying.
They figure a happy marriage is worth $100,000 a year.
First it has to be measured, then it can be taxed
Posted by as on February 18 2005 09:47