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Time to legislate for the good life

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  • Charles Seaford

    (Charles Seaford is head of the Centre for Well-being at the New Economics Foundation, 3 Jonathan Street, London SE11 5NH. He is a member of the UK National Statistician's Advisory Forum on Well-being.)

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Charles Seaford argues that a clear measure of well-being should be devised to help people judge how government policies affect their quality of life.

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  • Charles Seaford, 2011. "Time to legislate for the good life," Nature, Nature, vol. 477(7366), pages 532-533, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:477:y:2011:i:7366:d:10.1038_477532a
    DOI: 10.1038/477532a
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    1. Eric TC Lai & Ruby Yu & Jean Woo, 2020. "The Associations of Income, Education and Income Inequality and Subjective Well-Being among Elderly in Hong Kong—A Multilevel Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(4), pages 1-14, February.
    2. Chrisendo, Daniel & Siregar, Hermanto & Qaim, Matin, 2021. "Oil Palm Cultivation Improves the Long-Term Wellbeing of Smallholder Farm Households," 2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual 315061, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Christopher Christodoulou & Stefan Schneider & Arthur Stone, 2014. "Validation of a Brief Yesterday Measure of Hedonic Well-Being and Daily Activities: Comparison with the Day Reconstruction Method," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 115(3), pages 907-917, February.
    4. Bjørn Grinde & Ragnhild Bang Nes & Ian F. MacDonald & David Sloan Wilson, 2018. "Quality of Life in Intentional Communities," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 137(2), pages 625-640, June.
    5. John Jerrim & Sam Sims & Rebecca Allen & Hannah Taylor, 2020. "How does the mental health and wellbeing of teachers compare to other professions? Evidence from eleven survey datasets," DoQSS Working Papers 20-18, Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.
    6. Ylenia Brilli & Daniela Del Boca & Chiara Monfardini, 2013. "Child Care Arrangements: Determinants and Consequences," CHILD Working Papers Series 18, Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) - CCA.
    7. Chrisendo, Daniel & Siregar, Hermanto & Qaim, Matin, 2022. "Oil palm cultivation improves living standards and human capital formation in smallholder farm households," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 159(C).

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