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New research <\/a><\/strong>conducted\u00a0economists from Princeton, the University of Rochester\u00a0and the University of Chicago has found that one of the biggest reasons young men are rejecting work is that\u00a0they have a better alternative – living at home and enjoying video games.<\/p>\n As a result,”happiness has gone up for this group, despite employment percentages having fallen, and the percentage living with parents going up”.<\/p>\n “And that\u2019s different than for any other group,\u201d says the University of Chicago\u2019s Erik Hurst, an economist at the Booth School of Business who helped lead the research.<\/p>\n Young men without college degrees have replaced 75 percent of the time they used to spend working with time on the computer, mostly playing video games,\u00a0according to the study, which is based on the Census Bureau\u2019s time-use surveys.<\/p>\n Before the recession, from 2004 to 2007, young, unemployed\u00a0men without college degrees were spending 3.4 hours per week playing video games. By\u00a02011 to 2014, that time had\u00a0shot up to 8.6\u00a0hours per week on average.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Put simply, the fulfillment that comes from playing games is greater than working a low-paying, or studying in further education.<\/p>\n One team dominates South African eSports \u2013 is that a good thing?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The one bad thing every reviewer is saying about the PS4 Slim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
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