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Economic psychology

spending money on services that free up time, such as outsourcing chores, which raises happiness more than buying goods.

In economic psychology, buying time refers to spending money on services that free up time, such as outsourcing chores, which raises happiness more than buying goods. This meaning comes from Whillans (2017) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Whillans, A. V., Dunn, E. W., Smeets, P., Bekkers, R., & Norton, M. I. (2017). Buying time promotes happiness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(32), 8523-8527. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706541114

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