Drawing on evidence from across Europe, this report explores new ways in which policy can support and encourage high levels of wellbeing, using data from the European Social Survey. Much of the established evidence and analysis around wellbeing is based on a single measure – life satisfaction. This report combines contributions from City University London, the New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the University of Cambridge to explore new ways of understanding and measuring wellbeing
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
Well-being is a concept difficult to define and eventually harder to quantify. The idea of providing...
It has become customary to judge the success of a society through the use of objective indicators, p...
Drawing on evidence from across Europe, this report explores new ways in which policy can support an...
The ultimate aim of policy making should be to improve people’s wellbeing. Drawing on evidence from ...
More gender-equal societies promote better mental health among both men and women and reduce the gen...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
The idea that the happiness and wellbeing of individuals should shape government policy has been aro...
What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now a...
There is growing international interest among policymakers in the promotion of wellbeing as an obje...
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing ...
Indicators of social progress are the primary drivers of public policy. If existing economic measur...
Youth well-being is becoming more central to European social policies both in the EU and at a nation...
The ongoing research activity of economists who study what constitutes happiness and make recommenda...
The aim of this thesis is to explore the most appropriate means of measuring individual wellbeing fo...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
Well-being is a concept difficult to define and eventually harder to quantify. The idea of providing...
It has become customary to judge the success of a society through the use of objective indicators, p...
Drawing on evidence from across Europe, this report explores new ways in which policy can support an...
The ultimate aim of policy making should be to improve people’s wellbeing. Drawing on evidence from ...
More gender-equal societies promote better mental health among both men and women and reduce the gen...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
The idea that the happiness and wellbeing of individuals should shape government policy has been aro...
What produces a happy society and a happy life? Thanks to the new science of wellbeing, we can now a...
There is growing international interest among policymakers in the promotion of wellbeing as an obje...
Governments in liberal democracies pursue social welfare, but in many different ways. The wellbeing ...
Indicators of social progress are the primary drivers of public policy. If existing economic measur...
Youth well-being is becoming more central to European social policies both in the EU and at a nation...
The ongoing research activity of economists who study what constitutes happiness and make recommenda...
The aim of this thesis is to explore the most appropriate means of measuring individual wellbeing fo...
Background Recent trends on measurement of well-being have elevated the scientific standards and rig...
Well-being is a concept difficult to define and eventually harder to quantify. The idea of providing...
It has become customary to judge the success of a society through the use of objective indicators, p...