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For Love and Money: Why Men Spend More When Women Are Few

When women are in short supply, they expect men to pay more for engagement rings, dinner dates and Valentine's Day gifts.

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The Strange Economics of Cohabitation

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Conventional wisdom says that two can live together as cheaply as one. Conventional wisdom is, as usual, a little off. Studies indicate that two can actually live together about 1.4 times as cheaply as one. And new research suggests that a lot depends on who those two are, and what their living arrangement is.

Young Adults Choose Self-Esteem Boost Over Sex and Money

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It’s hard to imagine anything young people might value more than food, getting an extra paycheck or even having sex, but according to the results of a recent study in the Journal of Personality there is one thing prized most among college students: a boost to their self-esteem.

Dirty Money? Traces of BPA Found on Currency

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To the long list of household items and other common objects contaminated with bisphenol A (BPA) — an endocrine disruptor linked to infertility, genital abnormalities, cancer and more — add something unexpected: money.

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One Person’s Divorce Is Another’s Investment Opportunity

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Is it ethical to make money by investing in someone else’s divorce?

It’s True: We Shop Till it Hurts

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Feel like going out to dinner at that trendy new spot but can’t justify paying $120 for the tasting menu everyone’s talking about? Then take a date, spend twice as much and call it an investment in the relationship. There, that didn’t hurt a bit, did it?

Why We Strive for Money Over Time — and Why It’s a Mistake

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An old cliché says time is money. A newer cliché, from Oliver Stone, says money never sleeps — which is essentially the same assessment as the older one. But why are we pretending there’s a contest here?

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Another Reason Not to Get Divorced: Bloggers Bare All

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Like the Los Angeles Dodgers? Fascinated by the splits of the insanely wealthy? Love a bit o’ legal jargon? Then do we have a blog for you!

How Much Happiness Can Money Buy? About $75,000 Worth

People say money doesn’t make you happy. Except, according to a new study by Princeton University researchers, it actually sort of does — at least up to about $75,000 a year. In an article published on Time.com on Monday, Belinda Luscombe reports: “The lower a person’s income falls below that benchmark, the unhappier he or [...]

Global poll: can money buy happiness?

A new Gallup poll of more than 136,000 people from 132 countries around the world and a broad range of ethnic and economic backgrounds finds that, while people generally associated having more money with a greater satisfaction with their overall quality of life, when researchers focused on other measures of happiness — day to day feelings [...]