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To help John and the journalist, we asked our World Wellbeing Panel to comment on the wellbeing arising from luxury goods. With aspirations of one day owning that Lamborghini, we expected our panel of economists to agree... Read more...
07 August 2019
In 2007 UNICEF wrote a report on children in the world’s richest 21 countries. Britain and US came bottom. Children in the EU were markedly happier. A Good Childhood by Richard Layard and Judy Dunn, exam... Read more...
14 May 2018
And crooks respond to the changing value of goods, says Mirko Draca of the University of Warwick. With colleagues at the University of Glasgow and the London School of Economics, he examined the effect of pric... Read more...
16 December 2017
A nasty mix of neoliberalism and the Tories’ austerity policies are having appalling effects on our children’s health and welfare And so we come to the present day, with a 10-year anniversary pr... Read more...
10 January 2017
Why do so many people want children while they themselves are not happy at all in spirit? Also, we have a selective memory. When we look back on our experiences, we remember the highlights, such as the first smile of a ... Read more...
01 June 2016
The second programme I heard and was inspired by was this week's Radio 4 'All in the Mind'. The key messages here also chimed with much of my own thinking about the purpose of education, the pressures created by asse... Read more...
29 May 2016
Happiness in life can be traced in the shape of a 'U'. We start with the enthusiasm of 20 years, then you hit the lowest point between 45 and 55, but from sixty things start to look up again. ... The latest confirmation... Read more...
27 November 2015
A study on happiness by researchers Dr Terence Cheng (University of Adelaide), Professor Nattavudh Powdthavee (Centre for Economic Performance, LSE) and Professor Andrew Oswald (Warwick University), verified a U-shaped ... Read more...
25 November 2015
Further evidence: children in a London School of Economics and Political Science study from 2014 who had two overweight biological parents were 27 percent more likely than other kids to be overweight, yet adopted childre... Read more...
11 June 2015
The new understanding that childhood emotional wellbeing is key to a fulfilled adulthood comes from the Wellbeing research programme at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance. Its study analysed ... Read more...
11 November 2014
[Richard] Layard and his colleagues at the Wellbeing research program at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance concluded that a child's emotional health is far more important to their satisfacti... Read more...
10 November 2014
The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) has held a special debate on education and wellbeing in partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) at the Qatar National Convention Centre. ... WISH h... Read more...
08 November 2014
Richard Layard and his colleagues at the Wellbeing research programme at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance conclude that a child's emotional health is far more important to their satisfactio... Read more...
Article written by Richard Layard asking What is progress? The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has been asking this question for some time and the current crisis makes it imperative to find an answe... Read more...
19 March 2009
This public lecture was held on Wednesday 11 February 2009, in the Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE. Speakers: Professor Judy Dunn, Professor Lord Richard Layard Is childhood all it should be? Or has it been spoilt... Read more...
11 February 2009
AN AGGRESSIVE pursuit of personal success by adults is the “greatest threat” to the wellbeing and happiness of children, according to a landmark inquiry published in Britain yesterday. Speaking at a news conference t... Read more...
03 February 2009
Despite greater affluence, life has become more difficult for our children. According to yesterday's A Good Childhood report, this increased stress is due to the excessive individualism in our society, which produces i... Read more...
The wellbeing of millions of children across Britain is being damaged by adults' aggressive pursuit of personal success, a three-year inquiry by the Children's Society concluded today. The society blamed the problems ... Read more...
02 February 2009
The aggressive pursuit of personal success by adults is now the greatest threat to British children, a major independent report on childhood says. It calls for a sea-change in social attitudes and policies to counter ... Read more...
British children need lessons in love and moral responsibility to combat the growing culture of greed and individualism, a landmark report has advised. The report entitled 'A Good Childhood' also recommends report car... Read more...
01 February 2009
Ask yourself this: do you ever fight with your other half in front of the children? Do you leave them to their own devices when they are on the computer? Have you ever sat them in front of the television instead of takin... Read more...