Wellbeing Adjusted Life Years

How can we produce the greatest happiness return for humankind? Would it be better to reduce loneliness, diabetes, or air pollution by 50%? The Happiness Research Institute and Leaps by Bayer have developed a new impact metric to help provide answers to these questions. Rooted in decades of happiness research, WALYs can be used to empirically assess the determinants of good lives by providing a common currency of impact across economic, social, and environmental domains. Click on the image to read the whole report. 

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Please find the short version of the report here

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Please find the online appendix here