Study: Happy teens will earn more later on

[Niquii77]

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“Are you better off than you were before?”</p>

<p>The person who answers “yes” to this question may be more likely to be happy than the person who answers “no” to this question, even if the latter is actually wealthier on an absolute scale than the former.

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<p>Yes, I understand that. My post was in response to this:

I might have missed it, but did the study look at the initial family income of the participants? I’d imagine that a 16 year old whose lives below the poverty line would be substantially less happy than another 16 year old with parents that make more than $100,000 a year. Even if the impoverished student and the upper middle class one both earned a BA and had similar levels of self esteem, the road to financial stability would likely be far smoother for the upper middle class student than the impoverished one.

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<p>The question “Why does their previous economic status matter?” was not in response to what you think it was. It was in response to the poster saying that the impoverished would have a harder time to financial stability in which I was saying it wouldn’t matter of the impoverished kid was “less happy”. In the end, that individual will be happier.</p>