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What makes people happy? Why should governments care about people's
well-being? How would policy change if well-being was the main
objective? The Origins of Happiness seeks to revolutionize how we
think about human priorities and to promote public policy changes
that are based on what really matters to people. Drawing on a
uniquely comprehensive range of evidence from longitudinal data on
over one hundred thousand individuals in Britain, the United
States, Australia, and Germany, the authors consider the key
factors that affect human well-being. The authors explore factors
such as income, education, employment, family conflict, health,
childcare, and crime--and their findings are not what we might
expect. Contrary to received wisdom, income inequality accounts for
only two percent or less of the variance in happiness across the
population; the critical factors affecting a person's happiness are
their relationships and their mental and physical health. More
people are in misery due to mental illness than to poverty,
unemployment, or physical illness. Examining how childhood
influences happiness in adulthood, the authors show that academic
performance is a less important predictor than emotional health and
behavior, which is shaped tremendously by schools, individual
teachers, and parents. For policymakers, the authors propose new
forms of cost-effectiveness analysis that places well-being at
center stage. Groundbreaking in its scope and results, The Origins
of Happiness offers all of us a new vision for how we might become
more healthy, happy, and whole.
A new perspective on life satisfaction and well-being over the life
course What makes people happy? The Origins of Happiness seeks to
revolutionize how we think about human priorities and to promote
public policy changes that are based on what really matters to
people. Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from
various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect
human well-being, including income, education, employment, family
conflict, health, childcare, and crime. The Origins of Happiness
offers a groundbreaking new vision for how we might become more
healthy, happy, and whole.
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