How a focus on wellbeing can help us make better policy decisions

Blanco-Jimenez, Celia; Delaney, Liam; Dolan, Paul; Kavetsos, Georgios; Krekel, Christian; Kudrna, Laura; Laffan, Kate; Layard, Richard; O'Donnell, Gus; Sanders, Jet

How a focus on wellbeing can help us make better policy decisions

Celia Blanco-Jimenez, Liam Delaney, Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Laura Kudrna, Kate Laffan, Richard Layard, Gus O'Donnell and Jet Sanders

Deaths, hospitalisations and cases have been the default metrics for policymakers during the pandemic. Paul Dolan (LSE) and a team of behavioural science experts propose a broader way of measuring policy outcomes that considers life experience as well as life expectancy.

5 March 2021

LSE Covid-19

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/covid19/2021/03/05/how-a-focus-on-wellbeing-can-help-us-make-better-policy-decisions/

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