Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Surprising insights from the social sciences

Surprising insights from the social sciences
Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you life. Using extensive survey and government data on thousands of people, an economist found that people who have earned more are much less likely to die. In fact, poor middle-age men have mortality rates many times that of their affluent peers. Worse, this disparity has increased over time, for both ...