Measuring and Using Happiness to Support Public Policies
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JEL classification:
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- Z18 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Public Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2020-01-06 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HPE-2020-01-06 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-LTV-2020-01-06 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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