When Money Makes Us Happy By ELAINE SCHWARTZ
0 0 153 VIEWS In addition to income, gender, and racial inequality, there is a happiness gap. Let’s take a look The Happiness Gap The Survey In a recently published study, researchers looked at 44,198 participants’ answers to General Social Survey questions between 1972 and 2016. Their goal was to see if there was a connection between socioeconomic status (SES) and happiness for people over 30 years old. Selecting socioeconomic variables, they focused on income, education, and job prestige. Simplifying we can say that it all came down to whether people said they were “very happy, pretty happy, or not too happy?” The answers got a 1, 2, or 3 with 3 the most happy. Essentially though, there were three studies. Their first study combined everyone to see if the connection between happiness and SES changed over time. Then, based on race, Study #2 looked at the happiness gap between two groups of white adults and also at more and less affluent Black adults. To form conclusions, they