A new study claims that people who make more with their salary are more likely to live longer. This news started to make rounds online when researchers from Stanford University released this study on April 11.
According to Time magazine, Professor Raj Chetty of Stanford University along with his team concluded that longevity has to do with a person's income. Chetty and his colleagues based their study on every American's tax returns filed from 1999 to 2014. Others have assumed that having more money means not being able to have added years in a person's life, but this study showed the opposite of it.
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This research also said that although the number of added life decreases with income growth, generally making more money results in longer life. Those who reached the top 1 percent when it comes to their pay were able to live 15 years longer than people in the bottom 1 percent. Having said that, people with lower income are expected to live shorter, although the age was not really determined in this study.
This also just proves that longevity is not exactly about what products people are purchasing to live longer like health care and premium prescription drugs. Although health care is crucial to living longer, but what's more crucial based on this research, is what people do that lead to staying healthy.
Cleveland.com also shared this study adding that a person's location could also affect longevity. The publication cited this research posted on the Journal of the American Medical Association saying that living in a rich neighborhood could contribute to living longer. People with low income living in a rich neighborhood live longer than choosing to live in other places.
What do you think about this topic? Are you convinced that money and the neighborhood have a lot to do with a person's life expectancy? Tell us your opinion below.
