HAPPINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY: A CHALLENGE TO

By R. Layard. 2006

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Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The bigger the better? Evidence of the effect of government size on life satisfaction around the world (2007, background): “Although it is questionable whether governments should at all maximize average life satisfaction or whether less simplistic social welfare goals should be pursued, the results of happiness research clearly should have implications for the choice of government policies (Frey & Stutzer, 2000; Layard, ”
Human resource management practices and workers' job satisfaction (2008, methodology): “There is mounting research into the weakness of the link between income and life satisfaction, as in the happiness studies of Layard (2003, 2006) and Clark (2005) showing that despite rising wages there are stagnant levels in job satisfaction.”
A Brief History of Long Work Time and the Contemporary Sources of Overwork (2009, unknown): “However, the conventional model’s focus on rational individual or household choice provides no more than a starting point, particularly when in search of understanding longer-term trends and cross-sectional variation in work hours over time and among individuals (Huberman and Minns, 2007), or its we”
Does relative income matter? Are the critics right? (2009, unknown): “But this cut-off includes many countries which are far from the experience of advanced countries, and a more appropriate cut-off for the public debate is $20,000, as used by Layard (2005) and Deaton (2007). 31 Their Fig.”
Gender and Life Satisfaction in the UK (2011, background): “Analyzing the other factors influencing life satisfaction, many researchers find that external environment, personal circumstances, and personality are all important (Frey and Stutzer 2002 ; Richard Layard 2006 ).”
The life satisfaction approach to valuing public goods: The case of terrorism (2009, background): “…bizarre attacks, such as attacks on international computer firms by the Comité Liquidant ou Détournant les Ordinateurs (Committee for Liquidation of Computers, CLODO) or the bombing of gas pipelines by the Comité d’Action Viticole (Action Committee of Winegrowers, CAV), fall into the same category.”
Does Happiness Adapt? A Longitudinal Study of Disability with Implications for Economists and Judges (2008, unknown): “Other investigators, such as Clark (1999), Clark et al (2004), Stutzer (2004) Layard (2005, 2006) and Di Tella, Haisken and MacCulloch (2005), have begun to consider the economic implications of how people adapt.”
Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories (2010, background): “Layard (2006) argues that stimulation of migration does not seem to be an adequate instrument to help people with poor chances on the labor market, as their willingness (and ability) to move to other regions is low.”
Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well‐Being? A Critical Review (2017, background): “It thus represents a potentially important policy issue given the goal of policy makers to create circumstances that allow people to fulfill their aims (Bartolini, Bilancini, Bruni, & Porta, 2016; Layard, 2006).”
Everyday working life: Explaining within-person fluctuations in employee well-being (2012, background): “More recently, positive indicators of well-being, such as happiness, have been a subject of interest in economics (Layard, 2006), as well as in psychology with the emergence of the positive psychology movement (Seligman and Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).”
Subjective Well-Being: Measuring Happiness, Suffering, and Other Dimensions of Experience (2014, background): “…statistical offices, the media, and the public.1 The value of this information lies in its potential contribution to monitoring the economic, social, and health conditions of populations and in potentially informing policy decisions across these domains (Krueger et al., 2009; Layard, 2006).”
Relating ecoystem services to domains of human well-being: Foundation for a U.S. index (2013, background): “Over the past 30 years, quality of life research has garnered ncreasing attention as important value-added “good life” meaures for national policy (Cummins, 1996; Hamilton, 1999; Diener, 000; Hagerty et al., 2001; Cummins et al., 2003; Costanza et al., 004; Gundelach and Kreiner, 2004; Layard, 2006;”
Formal Institutions and Subjective Well-Being: Revisiting the Cross-Country Evidence (2010, unknown): “Layard, 2006). One of the main questions in this literature is to what extent national institutions affect people’s happiness. Institutions, defined broadly by North (1990) as ‘the rules of the game’, regulate public and private affairs in all modern societies and could thus be expected to exert an ”