The economist from Australia

Frizhters Australian economist Paul (Paul Frijters) expressed the effect of the major events in a person's life, bringing joy or disappointment in monetary units. The amount depends on the sex of the subject, - he said. Frizhters studied the lives of 10 thousand people since 2001. Respondents permanently fixed degree of satisfaction with life by 8-point scale. Comparison of the results from the monetary equivalent few shocking: very much cynically turns. So, it turned out that divorce a man is going through emotionally, as if he had lost 61, 5 thousand pounds. But women, too, the event makes you feel a loss of 5 thousand pounds ... The death of a loved one or a child in women is estimated at 73 thousand pounds, and men - 350 tysyach.

Having a child brings joy to a man of 18, 2 thousand pounds, and a woman - 4, 9000. Marriage is for women acquire 8, 7000 pounds, and for men it is 17, 7000. But moving to a new residence for women was equal to the profit of 1, 45 thousand pounds, and for men - as a loss of 8, 95 000, - reports The Daily Telegraph.

Source: scienceblog.ru/2009/11/18/ehkonomist-iz-avstralii-poschital-skolko-stoit-schaste/