More Sex Worth $50,000 a Year

If you’re spending long days at the office in hopes of a raise, you may want to consider going home early and jumping into the sack.

Increasing sex frequency from once a month to at least once a week provides as much happiness as a $50,000-a-year raise, according to a paper titled “Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study,” submitted to the National Bureau of Economic Research, one of the leading organizations in its field.

The findings come from two economists - David Blanchflower of England’s Dartmouth College and Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in England - who are leaders in a growing field known as “happiness economics,” which includes research on how such things as unemployment or the position of an employee’s desk affect happiness.

“People are interested in questions about what gives people satisfaction,” Blanchflower said. “We, as economists, look at money and marriage.”

In their 2004 study, Blanchflower and Oswald analyzed self-reported sexual activity and levels of happiness of more than 16,000 American adults who participated in surveys since the early 1990s.

“I think it says more money is not going to bring you as much happiness as a good family life,” Blanchflower said.

Furthermore, their study found that a lasting marriage offers about $100,000 worth of happiness a year; that is, on average, a single person would need to earn an extra $100,000 annually to be as happy as the married person with the same education and other characteristics.

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