Understanding the key determinants of people?s life satisfaction makes it possible to suggest policies for how best to reduce misery and promote wellbeing. A forthcoming book by Richard Layard and colleagues discusses evidence on the origins of happiness in survey data from Australia, Germany, the UK and the United States.

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1 March 2017     Paper Number CEPCP497

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Targeting policy at wellbeing