While many believe that money does buy happiness, research shows that richer people aren't necessarily happier people, especially in the United States.

Better-educated people appear to be in better health than less-educated people. But does more education cause better health, or are there other factors at play – such as income and access to information?

In the United States, wide disparity exists in the health of individuals with different levels of education

According to economists, in the 1980s and 1990s, immigration of low-skilled workers may have increased the labor supply of highly skilled women, and immigration of highly skilled workers may have increased the rate of innovation in the United States.

A recession, as long as it’s not too deep or too long, may be good for your health, recent studies suggest.

Mortality rates no longer rise sharply in recessions.

Cities initially more specialized in older technologies may have had more difficulty adapting to newer technologies because skills in initially dominant industries were not useful to new industries.