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.

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

5 March 2021

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LSE Covid-19

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

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