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Happiness and Satisfaction Are Not Everything: Toward Well Being Indices Based on Stated Preferences

January 07, 2015 by Miles Kimball

Here is a link to my 1st appearance on VoxEU: “Happiness and satisfaction are not everything: Toward wellbeing indices based on stated preference,” coauthored with Dan Benjamin, Samantha Cunningham, Ori Heffetz and Nichole Szembrot.

You can see more on these issues on my Happiness sub-blog, and especially these posts:

  • Judging the Nations: Wealth and Happiness Are Not Enough

  • Ori Heffetz: Quantifying Happiness

  • Justin Wolfers, Matthew Adler and Ori Heffetz: Round Table on Happiness (podcast)

  • My Experiences with Gary Becker

  • Does Ben Bernanke Want to Replace GDP with a Happiness Index?

  • Al Roth’s Nobel Prize is in Economics, but Doctors Can Thank Him, Too

  • Edward Glaeser, Joshua Gottlieb and Oren Ziv: Maximizing Happiness Does Not Maximize Welfare

January 07, 2015 /Miles Kimball
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