A handbook for wellbeing policy-making : : history, theory, measurement, implementation, and examples / / Paul Frijters and Christian Krekel.
"Around the world, governments are starting to directly measure the subjective wellbeing of their citizens and to use it for policy evaluation and appraisal. What would happen if a country were to move from using GDP to using subjective wellbeing as the primary metric for measuring economic and...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxford, England ;, New York, New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 433 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Richard Layard: Foreword
- Preface
- 1: The Case for Wellbeing as the Goal of Government in the Context of Constraints on Policy-making
- 2: Wellbeing Measurement and Policy Design Measures, Key Findings, and Wellbeing Frameworks
- 3: Wellbeing Policy Evaluation and Appraisal: Data, Methods, Literature, Rules-of-thumb, and Technical Standards
- Appendix A. Data: General Overview
- Appendix B. Data: Technical Details
- Appendix C. Data: Download Links and Sample Studies
- Appendix D. Conversion between Different Scales and Indicators of Wellbeing
- Appendix E. Headline Cost-effectiveness Graph and Justification of the Elements
- 4: Wellbeing Cost-effectiveness Analysis and Existing Approaches
- Appendix. The Monetary Value of Wellbeing in Mathematical Notation
- 5: Applying Wellbeing Insights to Existing Policy Evaluations and Appraisals.