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  • Public Policy
  • Behavioral Economics

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Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a framework for "budgeting for wellbeing" by integrating subjective wellbeing into government policy.
  • To address key objections to using subjective wellbeing in policy analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Establishing an evolving collection of objective indicators for progress monitoring.
  • Creating a publicly curated, evidence-based "Database of Happiness Coefficients".
  • Empowering independent public agencies to set material economic constraints.

Main Results:

  • The proposed system uses life satisfaction to provide quantitative structure and visibility to policy outcomes.
  • Identifies three key institutions to overcome challenges in implementing wellbeing budgeting.
  • Demonstrates that proposed changes have antecedents and analogues in existing systems.

Conclusions:

  • Shifting to human-centered measures of progress is achievable smoothly and non-disruptively.
  • The proposed framework enhances government accountability to population's subjective experience.
  • Maintains the need for political debate and platforms alongside data-driven policy.