The World Wellbeing Panel promotes wellbeing as the ultimate purpose of all major decision makers, particularly government.
To this end, we ask an international panel of experts questions of relevance to wellbeing policy. The answers are given on personal title. This poll fosters debates about policy in terms of its impacts on wellbeing, which over time should lead to better policies and decisions.
The panel launched in 2016 as part of the Wellbeing Program at the LSE Center for Economic Performance (CEP) under Professor Paul Frijters. It is now directed by Professor Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell (IAE-CSIC and BSE).
Questions are selected from a prior list suggested by our experts, policy makers, and journalists. The questions are vetted for language and suitability. Then they are sent out to 40-50 international experts who can express their agreement or disagreement with the question, and provide a short explanation of their answers.
The results of the poll are then written up by World Wellbeing Group members, after which they are disseminated amongst journalists, politicians, and anyone on the dissemination list.
The World Wellbeing Panel includes economists, sociologists, behavioral scientists, and public policy experts from institutions in Australia, Bhutan, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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Anna Alexandrova
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (UK) View biography |
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Tony Beatton Visiting Fellow, Queensland University of Technology - QUT (Australia) View biography |
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Daniel Benjamin
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Southern California (USA) View biography |
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Nicholas Biddle
Associate Director, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods (Australia) View biography |
| Martin Binder Professor of Socio-Economics, Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany) View biography |
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Christopher Boyce
Honorary Research Fellow, University of Stirling and Wellbeing Economy Alliance Research Fellow (UK) View biography |
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Sonam Choiden
President of Gedu College of Business Studies, Royal University of Bhutan (Bhutan) View biography |
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Jan-Emmanuel De Neve
Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy, University of Oxford (UK) View biography |
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Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonnell
Professor of Economics, IAE-CSIC (Spain) Affiliated Professor, Barcelona School of Economics View biography |
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Gigi Foster
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator, School of Economics, UNSW Business School (Australia) View biography |
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Bruno Frey
Visiting Professor of Economics and Wellbeing, University of Basel (Switzerland) View biography |
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Paul Frijters
Professorial Research Fellow, CEP Wellbeing Programme, London School of Economics (UK) View biography |
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Carol Graham
Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland (USA) View biography |
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Arthur Grimes
Chair of Wellbeing and Public Policy, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) Senior Fellow, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research View biography |
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Ori Heffetz
Associate Professor of Economics, Cornell University and Hebrew University (USA) View biography |
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John Helliwell
Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of British Columbia (Canada) View biography |
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Andreas Knabe
Professor (Chair in Public Economics), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Germany) View biography |
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Christian Krekel
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science, London School of Economics (UK) View biography |
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| Darma Mahadea Associate Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa) View biography |
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Kelsey J O'Connor
Researcher in the Economics of Well-being, STATEC Research (Luxembourg) View biography |
| Debayan Pakrashi Assistant Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India) View biography |
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Anke Plagnol
Lecturer in Psychology (Behavioural Economics), City University, London (UK) View biography |
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Nick Powdthavee
Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK) Associate, Wellbeing Programme, CEP View biography |
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Eugenio Proto
Alec Cairncross Professor of Applied Economics and Econometrics, University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School (UK) Research Fellow at CEPR, IZA, CESifo |
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Jordi Quoidbach
Associate Professor of Behavioral Decision Making in the Department of People Management, ESADE Business School (Spain) View biography |
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Benjamin Radcliff Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame (USA) View biography |
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Mariano Rojas
Professor of Economics, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (Mexico) View biography |
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Stephanié Rossouw
Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
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Francesco Sarracino
Economist, Research Division of the Statistical Office of Luxembourg -STATEC (Luxembourg) View biography |
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Ronnie Schöb
Professor, School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin Research Professor, ifo Institute, Dresden Branch (Germany) View biography |
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Conal Smith
Senior Associate at Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) View biography |
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William Tov
Associate Professor of Psychology, Singapore Management University (Singapore) View biography |
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Wenceslao Unanue
Assistant Professor, Business School, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile) View biography |
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Maarten Vendrik
Senior Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Maastricht University (Netherlands) Associate, ROA, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics View biography |
| Shun Wang Professor of Economics, KDI School of Public Policy and Management (South Korea) View biography |
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Mark Wooden
Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the HILDA Survey Project, Melbourne Institute, Applied Economic and Social Research, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne (Australia) View biography |
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Homa Zarghamee
Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University (USA) View biography |
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