Measuring Subjective Wellbeing for Public Policy: Recommendations on Measures

By Paul Dolan, R. Layard, Robert Metcalfe. 2011

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Rethinking how built environments influence subjective well-being: a new conceptual framework (2018, methodology): “SWB is being measured nationally by several countries such as Australia, Bhutan, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Thailand, United Kingdom, and United States and is also being measured at an international level (e.g. worldwide Gallup surveys, European Social Surveys).”
The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing (2012, background): “Given the recommendations by Dolan et al. (2011) and Dolan and Metcalfe (2012) on the measures of SWB that can be collected by governments, the ONS will now have include four measures of SWB in its HIS, which includes the UK labour force survey.”
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Unified Approach to Behavioral Welfare Economics1 (2016, background): “Examples include Frey and Stutzer (2007), Nordhaus (2009), Dolan et al. (2011), and Dolan and Metcalfe (2012). Much of this literature focuses on the measurement of the flow of well-being at a point in time (for instance, the National Well-Being Accounts of Kahneman et al.”
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the PERMA Model of Well-Being (2015, background): “In order to increase the clarity of the role of SWB in public policy, Dolan, Layard, and Metcalfe (2011) distinguished three broad types of SWB measures: (1) Evaluation – global assessments; (2) Experience – feelings over short periods of time; and (3) Eudaimonic – reports of purpose and meaning.”
Shelter from the Storm: Upgrading Housing Infrastructure in Latin American Slums (2014, background): “Finally, in a recent study by Duflo et al. (2015), the authors find that an integrated intervention that combines drinking water supply and sanitation facilities in slums in rural India decreased the incidence of diarrhea by between 30% and 50%. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. In Sec”
Neighborhood Effects on the Long-Term Well-Being of Low-Income Adults (2012, unknown): “tion yields results similar to those from questions about general life satisfaction; both provide global retrospective assessments of how people think their lives are going and are increasingly used to assess public policy impacts (18).”
The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family (2020, background): “…by the changes in the employment and child-care situation induced by the containment measures, we are able to contribute to the scientific and the wider public debate around the effects of containment measures on individuals’ and families’ well-being (Dolan et al. 2011; Kapteyn et al. 2015).”
From emotional and psychological well-being to character education: challenging policy discourses of behavioural science and ‘vulnerability’ (2012, background): “…aims to develop a checklist of psychological effects that consciously and unconsciously influence our behaviour as a basis for finding better ways to change individual conduct in anti-social behaviour, prosocial behaviour and healthy and prosperous lifestyles (e.g. Dolan et al. 2011; op. cit.).”
Valuation Techniques for Social Cost-Benefit Analysis: (2011, background): “Indirect effects of income As well as affecting our utility directly (for example, the pleasure of having more money in the bank), income affects utility indirectly through the goods and services it allows individuals to purchase (Dolan et al., 2011b; Dolan and Peasgood, 2006).”