How a focus on wellbeing can help us make better policy decisions

Dolan, Paul, Layard, Richard ORCID: 0000-0002-1313-699X, O’Donnell, Gus, Delaney, Liam ORCID: 0000-0002-3644-1161, Krekel, Christian ORCID: 0000-0001-5960-3891, Sanders, Jet ORCID: 0000-0002-9951-2799, Blanco Jimenez, Celia, Laffan, Kate ORCID: 0000-0002-3366-7704, Kavetsos, Georgios and Kudrna, Laura (2021) How a focus on wellbeing can help us make better policy decisions. LSE COVID-19 Blog (05 Mar 2021). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Deaths, hospitalisations and cases have been the default metrics for policymakers during the pandemic. Paul Dolan (LSE) and a team of behavioural science experts propose a broader way of measuring policy outcomes that considers life experience as well as life expectancy.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/
Additional Information:	© 2021 The Authors
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2021 13:09
Last Modified:	11 Sep 2025 13:14
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/110000

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