The website What Works Centre for Wellbeing has published an interesting guest blog of Jan van Ours, Professor of Applied Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, and Shuai Chen, a PhD candidate at CentER, Tilburg University. Prof. The researchers share the key findings from their research into (same-sex) relationships and wellbeing.
One of the findings is that partnered individuals are happier than singles. This can be because partnership leads to more satisfactory subjective well-being or because happier people are more likely to find a partner. These benefits are homogeneous to sexual orientation. The well-being gains of marriage are larger than those of cohabitation
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For the entire article go to the website of What Works Centre for Wellbeing, 5 June 2018.