Teaching happiness (economics) in your dismal-science courses

Kristen Cooper, Ori Heffetz, John Ifcher, Ekaterina Oparina and Stephen Wu

CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: This paper discusses ideas for incorporating the study of happiness and other measures of self-reported or subjective well-being (SWB) into undergraduate economics courses. We begin by motivating why students of economics would benefit from learning about SWB, and then proceed to provide examples of ways to introduce this topic into different parts of the curriculum: macroeconomics, microeconomics, and upper division electives.

Keywords: subjective wellbeing; self-reported wellbeing; economics of happiness; teaching economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04-07
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