Don’t Worry, Be Happy

David Blanchflower of New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College and Andrew Oswald of the U.K.’s University of Warwick studied 100,000 people to see how happy they were. They found that happiness is lowest around age 40, and then goes up after that, and that a lasting marriage brought as much happiness as an additional $100,000 in yearly income. (Reuters) ...Whereas a divorce brings as much sadness as losing $100,000, especially since both usually happen at the same time.