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You Can Never Have Too Much Money, Happiness Researcher Finds
A senior fellow at the Wharton School disputes the notion that the correlation between well-being and wealth levels off once people reach a certain income level.
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When it comes to money buying happiness, more is better. That’s according to new research from a senior fellow at the Wharton School who has argued that the correlation between wealth and well-being does not plateau once incomes reach a certain point.
Matthew Killingsworth, who studies the causes of human happiness, said both millionaires and billionaires are significantly happier than people earning more than $500,000 a year in an update to a study published last year that argued against the notion of a so-called “happiness plateau.”