As Long as We’re Happy …?

Bart Capéau, Laurens Cherchye, Koen Decancq, André Decoster, Bram De Rock, Francois Maniquet, Annemie Nys, Guillaume Périlleux, Eve Ramaekers, Zoé Rongé, Erik Schokkaert and Frederic Vermeulen
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Annemie Nys: University of Antwerp
Zoé Rongé: KU Leuven

Chapter Chapter 22 in Well-being in Belgium, 2020, pp 159-165 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract On average, Belgians with a decent income, good health, a relationship and work are happier than others. So couldn’t we simply use reported happiness as an indicator for steering or evaluating policy? If all citizens want to be happy, it would be very easy to make political decisions using an overall happiness score as a guiding policy indicator.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_22

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