Pennsylvania is number 41 and New Jersey number 47 in a study ranking US states and the District of Columbia by overall happiness.
Louisiana is ranked #1 in overall happiness. New Yorkers are the least happy.
The study published in the journal Science was based on two data sets: one on personal reports of happiness for 1.3 million Americans and the other that included quality of life measures such as population density, air quality, home prices and crime rates.
The study was conducted by economists Andrew J. Oswald of the University of Warwick in England and Stephen Wu of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y.
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