The Origins of Happiness

Chapter 14 The Effects of Individual Secondary Schools Our aim is to explain child outcomes at age 16: emotional (as measured by ...

Schooling policy makers still question whether that is the business of schools. We have only limited information on the features ...

Chapter 14 for family background. Once again, the effect of the school is remarkable on all three outcomes and at both ages. We ...

Schooling β- coefficients similar to those we were examining before, but for teachers rather than schools. Most research on teac ...

Chapter 14 11 respectively.^7 The first row uses the teacher’s own mea- surement of their children’s emotional health and behav- ...

Schooling schools in this regard is as large as the variation in their impact on academic performance. There is also a huge vari ...

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PART THREE So What? ...

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15 Measuring Cost- Effectiveness in Terms of Happiness I am afraid there’s no money. — Liam Byrne in a note to his successor at ...

Chapter 15 Fourth, evaluate the outcome using a method of cost- effectiveness in which the benefits are mea- sured in units of ...

Measuring Cost-Effectiveness As we have formulated the approach, it is a form of cost- effectiveness analysis. We measure the co ...

Chapter 15 would require that the cost of 1 point- year of happiness be no higher than $3,500. Why Cost- Effectiveness Analysis ...

Measuring Cost-Effectiveness Moreover, if we were using CBA there could be a case for an even more generous test. This is becaus ...

Chapter 15 Why Not Measure Benefits in Units of Money? Assembling the information needed for the new approach is a real challeng ...

Measuring Cost-Effectiveness to promote these public goods? Unfortunately, no. It has been shown repeatedly that asking people h ...

Chapter 15 Equity The basic inequality in our society is surely between peo- ple with different levels of happiness, not differe ...

Measuring Cost-Effectiveness is still the distributional issue of how we should allow for differences in happiness between diffe ...

Chapter 15 The typical scale that measures life- satisfaction runs from 0 (“not at all satisfied”) to 10 (“extremely satisfied”) ...

Measuring Cost-Effectiveness First there are policies involving public expenditure. The simplest cases are when the policy gener ...