"How's Life?" and the Measurement of Well-being

By Martine Durand. 2013

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Aligning AI Optimization to Community Well-Being (2020, methodology): “6 As an example community well-being framework, the OECD Better Life Index (Durand, 2015) aims to measure “both current material conditions and quality of life” (p.”
Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being (2021, unknown): “Wellbeing can be considered on macro level, e.g. in 10 country-level wellbeing domains by the OECD 8 , and on micro-level, reflected, for example individual constituents of wellbeing 36 .”
The Economics of Happiness (2021, background): “…to welfare measurement, advocated by the Stiglitz-Sen-Fitoussi Commission and the OECD Better Life Initiative, has included SWB measures as part of a broad dashboard comprising many well-being indicators, such as income and resources, environment, health, education, among others (Durand, 2015).”
Linkages between ecosystem services and human wellbeing: A Nexus Webs approach (2018, background): “Worldwide examples include the OECD Better Life Initiative (Durand, 2015), The 150 World Values Survey (Inglehart, Puranen, Pettersson, Nicolas, & Esmer, 2005), the World Happiness 151 Report (Helliwell et al.”