The Martin Prosperity Institute, located at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, is getting international attention for research that links a person's level of happiness to their level of education. As reported by the
New York Times, the school's report found a correlation between higher education and increased levels of general well-being.
"Ignorance isn't bliss. Rather, education is. At least, that's what trends in education and well-being levels across American cities seem to show...Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute , and his colleague Charlotta Mellander have taken a closer look at the metropolitan well-being numbers. They found moderate correlations between happiness and other factors, like wages, unemployment and output per capita. But the variable they looked at that showed the strongest relationship with happiness was "human capital," measured as the share of the population with a bachelor's degree or higher."
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