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[The Cosmic Hum]

[World Traveler]

In a new working paper, Canadian economists Shawn Grover and John Helliwell show the effect of marriage on a lifetime of happiness. They find that married people are generally happier, and that the “happiness bonus” from marriage is strongest right in middle age — when you need it the most.
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Subjective well-being research has often found that marriage is positively correlated with well-being. Some have argued that this correlation may be result of happier people being more likely to marry. Others have presented evidence suggesting that the well-being benefits of marriage are short-lasting. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we control individual pre-marital well-being levels and find that the married are still more satisfied, suggesting a causal effect, even after full allowance is made for selection effects. Using new data from the United Kingdom's Annual Population Survey, we find that the married have a less deep U-shape in life satisfaction across age groups than do the unmarried, indicating that marriage may help ease the causes of the mid-life dip in life satisfaction and that the benefits of marriage are unlikely to be short-lived.

[Who's Your Daddy?]

^^ Does that take into account that bad/unhappy marriages remove themselves from the study by divorce. So the remaining pool of "married" are those that are more likely in a good marriage.

I think a big benefit of marriage is two incomes cover the cost of housing. That in itself might make life happier.

[toonchoon]

All this talk and it's like everybody is missing the point:

25% of Koreans living along means that more and more women in their 20's are living alone, meaning that there's no curfew from parents to come home by 10pm, meaning that it's becoming much easier to [Mod Edit]

... if that wasn't already the case.

[Weigookin74]

Now if the marts would quit selling fruit in bulk maybe they'd all be onto something. Seriously, I don't need a ton of bannanas or other things together. Let me pick off the ones I need. I'm not a family and the rest will spoil before I eat them all. Maybe if the marts learn this fact, they'll learn to be more flexible.

[lemak]

if you've smelled the breath of the average local on any korean public transport it doesn't surprise me no one wants to live with them.

[jazzmaster]

[Yaya]

[Yaya]

The subjective feeling of loneliness increases risk of death by 26%, according to the new study in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. Social isolation—or lacking social connection—and living alone were found to be even more devastating to a person’s health than feeling lonely, respectively increasing mortality risk by 29% and 32%.

http://time.com/3747784/loneliness-mortality/

[Who's Your Daddy?]

ㅅㅅThat's relevant to a lot of foreigners in Korea.