A Handbook for Wellbeing Policy-Making

Paul Frijters is Professor of Wellbeing Economics at the London School of Economics. From 2016 to 2019 he was at the Center for Economic Performance and thereafter at the Department of Social Policy. He completed his Masters in Econometrics at the University of Groningen and his PhD in Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University, the University of Queensland, and the LSE. Professor Frijters specializes in applied microeconometrics, including labour, health, and happiness economics and has published over 150 refereed journal articles. In 2009, he was voted Australia's best young economist under the age of 40 by the Australian Economic Society.Christian Krekel is Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics. He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance and at the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Dr Krekel is an applied economist and his research fields include behavioural economics and wellbeing, policy and programme evaluation, and applied panel and spatial analysis. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the Paris School of Economics. He was awarded the Young Economist Award by the European Economic Association.

This volume studies what would happen if subjective wellbeing were to be the only policy metric that government cares about and whether policy priorities would fundamentally change.

Foreword