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Article: Lots of money can buy happiness, study finds
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- January 8, 2002
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Dateline: LONDON
The old adage that money cannot buy happiness is wrong _ but you need
a lot of it to be euphoric, according to research published Tuesday.
As far as age is concerned, the decade-long study of 9,000 families
in Britain found happiness follows a U-shaped pattern. People start
life happy but drift into discontent in their early 30s, before their
happiness recovers and continues increasing into their 60s.