Via the ever-surprising Marbury (aka Ian Leslie):
Correlation between the Dow Jones and Happiness:
Note that when the index dropped unexpectedly, so did people's happiness - but once they adjusted to the new reality, happiness levels went straight back up. More happiness correlates here.
Some of the other correlates Leslie links to are snappy:
- People who have a college degree are happier than people who do not have a college degree BUT
- People with advanced degrees are LESS happy than people with just a bachelor’s degree
Here’s the references:
Eric Weiner, *The Geography of Bliss, *Twelve, 2008.
Fowler, J. H.; Christakis, N. A (3 January 2009). “Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis Over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study” (PDF). British Medical Journal 337 (768): a2338. doi:10.1136/bmj.a2338. PMC 2600606. PMID 19056788.
Graham, Carol, Soumya Chattopadhyay, and Mario Picon (2010), “Does the Dow Get You Down? Happiness and the U.S. Economic Crisis”, mimeo, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, January.
