by Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Recently, economists have become increasingly interested in using subjective measures of well-being and happiness to study individual’s utility. This contrasts with the tradition within economics of using income as a proxy to individual’s welfare. Can happiness be quantified? What are the results of this line of economic research? What is the relationship between income and happiness? And between environmental degradation and happiness?
Dr. Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell works as a researcher for SCHOLAR (Faculty of Economics and Econometrics) and for AIAS, both of the University of Amsterdam. Among others she published Happiness Quantified (Oxford University Press, with prof. B. van Praag)Lecture in English - Entrance Free