The LSE's Centre for Economic Performance has released videos of its recent seminar: Subjective well-being over the life course: evidence and policy implications. Here's the background:
Why should governments care about people's wellbeing? How would policy change if raising wellbeing was the objective?
Understanding how people experience and feel about their lives provides valuable information for policy-makers. But for public policy to improve people's subjective well-being, we need a good understanding of what drives it. This two-day conference will examine the latest evidence from UK and international research on the determinants of subjective well-being over the life course, and what this might mean for policy-making. Supported by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, this event is a landmark conference reporting the first results from a collaboration between the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance, the CEPREMAP Wellbeing Observatory at the Paris School of Economics, the OECD, and an international consortium of researchers. The first day of the conference featured an overview of UK findings, presented by Lord Richard Layard, Andrew Clark, and Nick Powdthavee. This will be followed by a broad debate about how subjective well-being evidence can improve policy-making. The second day involved a more detailed look at the international evidence from an OECD Consortium, featuring results from the United States, France, Germany, Australia, Norway, Denmark and Sweden.
Other event highlights include:
- Keynote addresses from Lord Gus O'Donnell, Jeffrey Sachs, Mari Kiviniemi, John Helliwell, and Alan Krueger
- High-level panel discussions on well-being and policy
- The launch of a new Wellbeing Society
There's a lot to read here, but my well-being might improve if I got away from the computer screen into the fresh air, so I might give it all a miss till later in 2017.
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