Can Money Buy Happiness?
Can money buy happiness? More than a decade ago, Nobel Prize-winners Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton decided to tackle that question. They studied the results of a 2008-2009 survey of 450,000 Americans (i.e., the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index). Kahneman and Deaton observed that the more people earned, the more inclined they were to report being happy—up …