Bold quote from about 50% down the page: "The causal effect of quitting a job is estimated to be a gain of 5.2 happiness points out of 10, and breaking up as a

Bold quote from about 50% down the page: "The causal effect of quitting a job is estimated to be a gain of 5.2 happiness points out of 10, and breaking up as a gain of 2.7 out of 10!" I believe that's on a scale of 1 to 10 (or 0 to 10?) someone rated going from a 3 to an 8 (on average) based on quitting a job they were /considering/ quitting. I will note that they probably did have other opportunities lined up; quitting a job and becoming unemployed without benefits strikes me as a most probably unhappy circumstance. Similarly the relation change ended up netting 2-3 "points" of difference for a relationship. So 5 became 7 or 8. Edit (not for formatting): I didn't check the details on the statistics, so I don't know how LIKELY a positive outcome vs negative outcome was from those changes. It's possible that there's a split where a subset was VERY happy with the change and some were ambivalent/unhappy as a result.