Title: The Measure Matters: An Investigation of Evaluative and Experience-Based Measures of Wellbeing in Time Use Data.
Authors:
Publisher: Social Indicators Research
Doing as I intend to do: The role of ‘implementation intentions’ in financial behaviours
Title: Doing as I intend to do: The role of ‘implementation intentions’ in financial behaviours
Authors: Paul Dolan, Laura Kurdna and Kate Laffan
Publisher: HSBC
The Role of Reciprocity and Social Uncertainty in Decisions for Others
Title: The Role of Reciprocity and Social Uncertainty in Decisions for Others
Authors: Ivo Vlaev, Brian Wallace, Nicholas Wright, Antoinette Nicolle, Paul Dolan, Raymond Dolan
Publisher: Journal of Neuroscience Psychology and Economics
The Role of Reciprocity and Social Uncertainty in Decisions for Others
Title: The Role of Reciprocity and Social Uncertainty in Decisions for Others
Authors: Ivo Vlaev, Brian Wallace, Nicholas Wright, Antoinette Nicolle, Paul Dolan and Raymond Dolan
Publisher: Journal of Neuroscience Psychology and Economics, October 2016
Lose Weight for Love BBC 1
Professor Tanya Byron and her team attempt to help couples who are locked in a cycle of overeating that threatens not only their health, but also their relationships.
Without My medal on My Mind: Counterfactual Thinking and Other Determinants of Athlete Emotions
Title:Without My medal on My Mind: Counterfactual Thinking and Other Determinants of Athlete Emotions
Authors: Laura Kudrna, Georgios Kavetsos, Chloe Foy, Paul Dolan
See Professor Dolan discuss the impact of narratives on happiness with Edge
Interview: Paul Dolan on the science of happiness
The Toronto Sun: Don’t worry, be happy, it’s World Happiness Day
HR Magazine: Workplaces should give employees a purpose to increase happiness
The Telegraph: Do you need a mind coach?
The Allure of Happy Endings: LSE Literary Festival discussion
The Guardian: Banish those midlife blues – the secret to happiness starts with one small step
Microsoft Europe: Simple and realistic changes to be happy, healthy and fit
London Business Forum: Happiness by Design
Edge.org. The Edge Question 2016
The Daily Mirror: The New Year’s Resolutions you really should be making
CapX: Recruiting ethnic minorities in the military: the solution is behavioural economics
BBC World
Wired Festival 2015: The secret to happiness? The small stuff
ABC One Plus One Interview
Nudgestock: Purpose in work
Wilderness Festival 2015
The Wheeler Centre Australia: Why thinking happy isn’t enough
Behaviour and Happiness at work
Misbehaving: the making of behavioural economics with Richard Thaler
The Sydney Morning Herald: Happiness by Design: finding a balance between purpose and pleasure
Because I’m Worth It: A Lab-Field Experiment on the Spillover Effects of Incentives in Health
Title:Discussion Paper July 2014
Authors: Paul Dolan, Matteo M Galizzi
Publisher: Centre for Economic performance
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Paying people to eat or not to eat? Carryover effects of monetary incentives on eating behaviour
Title: Social Science and Medicine
Author: Paul Dolan, Matteo M Galizzi, Daniel Navarro – Martinez
Publisher: 133 May 2015 pp. 153-158
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Getting policy-makers to listen to field experiments
Title: Oxford Review of Economic Policy 2014 30 (4): 725-752
Author: Paul Dolan; Matteo M. Galizzi
ISSN: 10.1093/oxrep/gru035
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BBC 5 Live
The Telegraph: Nine things we get wrong about love
SwissRe. Behavioural Economics: Making It Real
Design in Mind
Action for Happiness
Philosophy For Our Times: Cutting Edge Debates and Talks From the World’s Leading Thinkers
Good Day at Work: National Wellbeing and Why It’s Important
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Book: Happiness by Design
UK Title: Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life
Author: Paul Dolan (Foreword by Daniel Kahneman)
Publisher: Allen Lane (August 28, 2014)
ISBN: 0241003105 (ISBN13:978-0241003107)
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US Title: Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think
Author: Paul Dolan (Foreword by Daniel Kahneman)
Publisher: Hudson Street Press (August 28, 2014)
ISBN: 159463243X (ISBN13: 9781594632433)
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Babies in waiting: Why increasing the IVF age cut-off might lead to fewer wanted pregnancies in the presence of procrastination
Title: Babies in waiting: Why increasing the IVF age cut-off might lead to fewer wanted pregnancies in the presence of procrastination
Authors: Paul Dolan, Caroline Rudisil
Publisher: Health Policy (2014).
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The impact of cancer on the preferences and subjective wellbeing of patients
Title: The impact of cancer on the preferences and subjective wellbeing of patients
Authors: Paul Dolan
Sentimental hedonism: capturing experiences of both pleasure and purpose
Title: Sentimental hedonism: capturing experiences of both pleasure and purpose
Authors: Paul Dolan
Drafts available upon request
Is U for real? New and conflicting evidence on the midlife crisis in wellbeing
Title: Is U for real? New and conflicting evidence on the midlife crisis in wellbeing
Authors: Paul Dolan
Drafts available upon request
Social experience sampling and insurance behaviour
Title: Social experience sampling and insurance behavior
Author: Paul Dolan
Drafts available upon request
BBC Radio 2 Interview
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Happiness by Design Book Trailer
The Telegraph: Rainy days make us just as happy as sunny
Hay Festival. Happiness By Design.
BBC 2 Horizon ‘How you really make decisions’
Addressing misconceptions in valuing health
Title: Addressing misconceptions in valuing health
Authors: Dolan, P.
Publisher: Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
ISSN: 1473-7167
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Measuring happiness: context matters
Title: Measuring happiness: context matters
Authors: Kavetsos G, Dimitriadou M, Dolan P.
Publisher: Applied Economics Letters
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Subjective well-being and the measurement of quality in healthcare
Title: Subjective well-being and the measurement of quality in healthcare
Authors: Lee H, Vlaev I, King D, Mayer E, Darzi A, Dolan P.
Publisher: Social Science and Medicine
ISSN: Volume 99, December 2013, Pages 27–34
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Vouchers versus lotteries: what works best in promoting chlamydia screening? A cluster randomised controlled trial
Title: Vouchers versus lotteries: what works best in promoting chlamydia screening? A cluster randomised controlled trial
Authors: Niza C, Rudisill C, Dolan P
Publisher: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
ISSN: 10.1093/aepp/ppt033
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More years, less yawns: fresh evidence on tiredness by age and other factors
Title: More years, less yawns: fresh evidence on tiredness by age and other factors
Authors: Dolan, P., Kudrna, L.
Publisher: Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.
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The effect of financial incentives on chlamydia testing rates: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Title: The effect of financial incentives on chlamydia testing rates: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Authors: Caroline Rudisill, Paul Dolan
Publisher: Social Science & Medicine Corresponding
ISSN:
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Queen’s Lecture Berlin.
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Influencing the financial behaviour of individuals: the mindspace way
Title: Influencing the financial behaviour of individuals: the mindspace way
Author: Dolan P.
Publisher: Behavioural Public Policy
‘Greasy Roads: The Impact of Bad Financial News on Road Traffic Accidents’
Title: ‘Greasy Roads: The Impact of Bad Financial News on Road Traffic Accidents’
Authors: Vandoros S., Kavetsos G., Dolan P.
Publisher: Risk Analysis
ISSN: 10.1111/risa.12123
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Metro.co.uk. “Purpose or pleasure? Why the pursuit of happiness matters to our genes”
Digital Shoreditch. Attending to Happiness.
TEDx Goodenough College. Attention.
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Chapter: Behavioural Public Policy
Title: Behavioural Public Policy
Chapter: Dolan P, Influencing the financial behaviour of individuals: the mindspace way
Authors: Adam Oliver, London School of Economics and Political Science
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 9781107617377
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Sick but satisfied: The impact of life and health satisfaction on choice between health scenarios
Title: Sick but satisfied: The impact of life and health satisfaction on choice between health scenarios
Authors: Paul Dolana, Georgios Kavetsosa, Aki Tsuchiyab
Publisher: Journal of Health Economics
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BBC Radio Sussex – Danny Pike Show 13 March 2013
The theory and practice of nudging health behaviours
Title: The theory and practice of nudging health behaviours
Authors: Dolan, P., King, D., Vlaev, I., and Darzi, A.
Drafts available upon request
Personalisation in the health care system: do personal health budgets impact on outcomes and cost?
Title: Personalisation in the health care system: do personal health budgets impact on outcomes and cost?
Authors: Jones, K., Forder, J., Glendinning, C., Caiels, J., Welch, E., Baxter, K., Davidson, J., Windle, K., Irvine, A., King, D. and Dolan, P.
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The use of financial incentives in changing health behaviours: lessons from behavioural economics
Title: The use of financial incentives in changing health behaviours: lessons from behavioural economics
Authors: King, D., Vlaev, I., Lee, H., Metcalfe, R., Darzi, A., and Dolan, P.
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Moving up and sliding down: an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing
Title: Moving up and sliding down: an empirical assessment of the effect of social mobility on subjective wellbeing
Authors: Dolan, P. and Lordan, G.
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Like ripples on a pond: the pervasive impact of one behaviour on the next
Title: Like ripples on a pond: the pervasive impact of one behaviour on the next
Authors: Dolan, P. and Galizzi, M.
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Because I’m worth it: an experiment on the spillover effects of incentives in health
Title: Because I’m worth it: an experiment on the spillover effects of incentives in health
Authors: Dolan, P. and Galizzi, M.
Drafts available upon request
Exercise and happiness: telling the chicken from the egg
Title: Exercise and happiness: telling the chicken from the egg
Authors: Dolan, P., Kavetsos, G. and Vlaev, I.
Drafts available upon request
Happy talk: mode of administration effects on subjective well-being. CEP Discussion Paper No. 1159, LSE.
Title: Happy talk: mode of administration effects on subjective well-being. CEP Discussion Paper No. 1159, LSE.
Authors: Dolan, P. and Kavetsos, G.
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Sick but satisfied: the impact of health and life satisfaction on the choice between health scenarios
Title: Sick but satisfied: the impact of health and life satisfaction on the choice between health scenarios
Authors: Dolan, P., Kavetsos, G. and Tsuchiya, A.
Drafts available upon request
aluing wind farms: does experience matter?
Title: aluing wind farms: does experience matter?
Authors: Metcalfe, R. and Dolan, P. V
Drafts available upon request
Neighbors, knowledge, and nuggets: Two natural field experiments on the role of incentives on changing energy consumption
Title: Neighbors, knowledge, and nuggets: Two natural field experiments on the role of incentives on changing energy consumption
Authors: Dolan, P. and Metcalfe, R.
Drafts available upon request
The carer burden: estimating the impact of caring on wellbeing
Title: The carer burden: estimating the impact of caring on wellbeing
Authors: Dolan, P. Fujiwara, D. and Peasgood, T.
Drafts available upon request
The direct and indirect effects of income on wellbeing
Title: The direct and indirect effects of income on wellbeing
Authors: Dolan, P., Fujiwara, D. and Metcalfe, R.
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Distributing health care: economic and ethical issues
Title: Distributing health care: economic and ethical issues Authors: Dolan P and Olsen JA
Publisher: Oxford University Press (31 October 2002)
ISBN-10: 0192632531
ISBN-13: 978-0192632531
Table of Content: Health care and health; Economics and efficiency; Justice and fairness; Efficiency-motivated responses to market failures; Equity-motivated responses to market failures; Providing health care: finance and regulation; Economic evaluation techniques; The ethics of economic evaluation in priority setting; Towards a new health economics?
Talk Radio Europe. 31 January 2013.
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Newstalk Ireland. The Breakfast Show. 8:20am on 31 January 2013
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“Want to be happy? Just switch off your phone: expert”. Deccan Chronicle (India), 29 January 2013.
“Secret to happiness in turning off phone”. NewstalkZB – New Zealand News website, 29 January 2013
“Smart phones lead to dumb people.” Express.co.uk, 29 January 2013
“Want the secret to true happiness?” Yahoo Health and Wellbeing, 29 January 2013
“Switch off your cell phone to keep happy.” The Deccan Herald, 29 January 2013
-“Tratar constantemente de ser felices es algo que nos puede hacer muy infelices: Paul Dolan”, El Heraldo (Colombia), 29 January 2013
Translation: “Continually trying to be happy is something that can make us very unhappy: Paul Dolan”
This Morning – ITV 1 London, 28 January 2013
As part of a review of the day’s papers Phillip Schofield mentions Paul Dolan’s comments at the Hay Festival regarding his advice that turning off your mobile phone will make you happier.
The story was also mentioned on: Channel Five News, ITV 1 Ulster, STV North, STV Central West, ITV 1 Tyne Tees North, ITV 1 Central West, ITV 1 Granada, ITV 1 Yorkshire West, ITV 1 West, ITV 1 Meridian South, ITV1 Anglia East, ITV 1 Wales, ITV 1 West Country, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Asia, Real Radio Scotland, Real Radio NorthEast, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Tees, LBC, BBC Oxford, BBC Berkshire, BBC Kent, BBC Sussex.
“It’s time to switch off your mobile and set yourself free.” The Telegraph, Max Davidson, 28 January 2013
“Want to be happy? Just switch off your phone, says expert.” The Daily Mail, 28 January 2013
“Want to be happy? Just switch off your phone, says expert.” Nigeria Online, 28 January 2013.
“Why the secret of happiness is turning off your mobile phone.” The Telegraph, 28 January 2013
Hay Festival Cartagena, Colombia.
“How do you measure happiness?” World Economic Forum Blog, Paul Paul and Olivier Harison, 23 January 2013
Prioritising investments in public health: a multi-criteria decision analysis
Title: Prioritising investments in public health: a multi-criteria decision analysis
Authors: Marsh K, Dolan P, Kempster J, and Lugon M
Publisher: Journal of Public Health (14/Dec/2012)
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Educational interventions are unlikely to work because obese people aren’t unhappy enough to lose weight
Title: Educational interventions are unlikely to work because obese people aren’t unhappy enough to lose weight
Authors: Dolan, P and Kavetsos, G
Publisher: British medical journal, 345
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Valuing adult learning: comparing wellbeing valuation to contingent valuation
Title: Valuing adult learning: comparing wellbeing valuation to contingent valuation – BIS
Authors: Paul Dolan, Daniel Fujiwara
Publisher: Department for Business Inovation and Skills
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Personal Health Budgets Evaluation final report
Title: Evaluation of the personal health budget pilot programme
Authors: Julien Forder, Karen Jones, Caroline Glendinning, James Caiels, Elizabeth Welch, Kate Baxter, Jacqueline Davidson, Karen Windle, Annie Irvine, Dominic King and Paul Dolan
Publisher: Personal Health Budget Evaluation
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“Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem.” The Next Web, 20 October 2012
“Aviva launches New Thinking book to help advisers’ conversations about charging.” Hedgeweek, 08 October 2012
Financial incentives and working in the education sector
Title: Financial incentives and working in the education sector
Authors: Paul Dolan, Robert Metcalfe & Daniel Navarro-Martinez
Publisher: Department for Education
ISBN: 978-1-78105-182-5
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Using happiness to value health
Title: Using happiness to value health
Author: Paul Dolan
Publisher: Office of Health Economics
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‘New Thinking’: How behavioural science can help your conversations about charging
Title: ‘New Thinking’: How Behavioural Science can help your conversations about charging
Authors: Paul Dolan, Steve Martin
Publisher: In partnership with AVIVA
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The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing
Title: The relationship between innovation and subjective wellbeing
Authors: P. Dolan, R. Metcalfe
Publisher: Research Policy
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Pay them if it works: Discrete choice experiments on the acceptability of financial incentives to change health related behaviour
Title: Pay them if it works: Discrete choice experiments on the acceptability of financial incentives to change health related behaviour
Authors: Promberger M, Dolan P, Marteau T
Publisher: Social Science and Medicine
Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy: Philosophical Perspectives, Keynote Speaker, Leeds 13 July 2012
In Conversation With Daniel Kahneman. The London School of Economics, London, UK, June 7th 2012.
“Why we need a ‘nudge’ in the right direction.” BBC News Health, 07 June 2012
Losing sight of the wood for the trees: Some issues in describing and valuing health and another possible approach
Title: Losing sight of the wood for the trees: Some issues in describing and valuing health and another possible approach
Authors: Dolan P, Lee H and Peasgood T
Publisher: PharmacoEconomics
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It’s the lifetime that matters: public preferences over maximising health and reducing inequalities in health
Title: It’s the lifetime that matters: public preferences over maximising health and reducing inequalities in health
Authors: Dolan P and Tsuchiya A,
Publisher: Journal of Medical Ethics
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Influencing behaviour: the mindspace way
Title: Influencing behaviour: the mindspace way
Authors: Dolan P, Hallsworth M, Halpern D, King D, Metcalfe R, Vlaev I
Publisher: Journal of Economic Psychology
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Valuing health: a brief report on subjective wellbeing versus preferences
Title: Valuing health: a brief report on subjective wellbeing versus preferences
Authors: Dolan P and Metcalfe R
Publisher: Medical Decision Making
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Using happiness to value health
Title: Using happiness to value health
Authors: Paul Dolan
Publisher: Office of Health Economics
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Public preferences for responsibility versus reducing inequalities
Title: Public preferences for responsibility versus reducing inequalities
Authors: Edlin, R, Tsuchiya A, Dolan, P
Publisher: Health Economics
ISSN: 1057-9230
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Happiness questions and government responses: a pilot study of what the general public makes of it all
Title: Happiness questions and government responses: a pilot study of what the general public makes of it all
Authors: Paul Dolan
Publisher: Revue d’economie politique
ISSN: 0373-2630
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Measuring subjective wellbeing: recommendations on measures for use by national governments
Title: Measuring subjective wellbeing: recommendations on measures for use by national governments
Authors: Paul Dolan, Richard Layard and Robert Metcalfe
Publisher: Journal of Social Policy
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LSE.AC.UK Hope page Banner – “We are not very good at predicting what makes us happy”, London School of Economics and Political Science, Nov 2011
“Blog Entry – British Politics and Policy at LSE”, London School of Economics and Political Science, 13 October 2011
It’s driving her mad: gender differences in the effects of commuting on psychological well-being
Title: It’s driving her mad: gender differences in the effects of commuting on psychological well-being
Authors: Roberts, J., Hodgson, R. and Dolan, P.
Publisher: Journal of Health Economics
ISSN:
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“The Behavioural Insights Team’s Report on Energy Use.” British Politics and Policy at LSE, 03 September2011
“Stressful attire.” Australian Financial Review, First Edition, p. 59, 02 September2011
“Stressful attire.” Australian Financial Review, First Edition, p. 59, 02 September2011
“Is commuting stressful?” Scunthorpe Telegraph, Edition 1 feature, p. 71, 01 September2011
“Is commuting stressful?” Scunthorpe Telegraph, Edition 1 feature, p. 71, 01 September2011
“At peak hour it’s all aboard for the stress express; Working mums – it was women who suffered more psychologically.” The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 29 August 2011
“No title – (on gender differences in commuting)”. Evening Chronicle, Newcastle, UK, Douglas Young, p. 2-3, 29 August 11
“No title – (on gender differences in commuting)”. Evening Chronicle, Newcastle, UK, Douglas Young, p. 2-3, 29 August 11
“Health scan.” Health Daily Digest, U.S., 26 August 2011
“Health scan.” Health Daily Digest, U.S., 26 August 2011
“Commuting stresses women more than men.” News Tonight, Pratibha Minhas, 25 August 2011
“Trips wear out women – hard commute.” Sydney MX (Australia), 1 – SYD Edition, 24 August 2011
“Trips wear out women – hard commute.” Sydney MX (Australia), 1 – SYD Edition, 24 August 2011
“Women suffer more than men while commuting.” MyNews Interactive Media, 24 August 2011
“Women suffer more than men while commuting.” MyNews Interactive Media, 24 August 2011
“Trips wear out women.” MX Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), p. 6, 24 August 2011
“Trips wear out women.” MX Brisbane (Queensland, Australia), p. 6, 24 August 2011
“Hard commute trips wear out women.” MX (Australia), 1 – Melbourne Edition, p. 8, 24 August 2011
“Hard commute trips wear out women.” MX (Australia), 1 – Melbourne Edition, p. 8, 24 August 2011
“Women suffer more than men while commuting.” Indo-Asian News Service, 24 August 2011
“Is commuting stressful? In brief.” Grimsby Telegraph, Edition 1, National Edition, p. 18, 24 August 2011
“Is commuting stressful? In brief.” Grimsby Telegraph, Edition 1, National Edition, p. 18, 24 August 2011
“Daily grind hits mothers worst.” Metro UK, Tariq Tahir, 23 August 2011
“Daily grind hits mothers worst.” Metro UK, Tariq Tahir, 23 August 2011
“Why the daily commute grinds down women more than men.” The Western Mail, First Edition, p. 5, 23 August 2011
“Why the daily commute grinds down women more than men.” The Western Mail, First Edition, p. 5, 23 August 2011
“Stress of work run.” The Sun, England, Edition 2, National Edition, p. 11, 23 August 2011
“Stress of work run.” The Sun, England, Edition 2, National Edition, p. 11, 23 August 2011
“Work run ‘is stress’.” The Sun, England, Edition 1, Scotland, p. 10, 23 August 2011
“Work run ‘is stress’.” The Sun, England, Edition 1, Scotland, p. 10, 23 August 2011
“Stress of work run.” The Sun, England, Edition 1, National Edition, p. 11, 23 August 2011
“Stress of work run.” The Sun, England, Edition 1, National Edition, p. 11, 23 August 2011
“Commuting triggers stress for working mothers, claims study.” News Tonight, Pratibha Minhas, 23 August 2011
“Women feel the stress.” Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 1st Edition, p. 32, 23 August 2011
“Women feel the stress.” Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 1st Edition, p. 32, 23 August 2011
“Women hit worst by daily commute.” The Express, UK 1st Edition, 23 August 2011
“Women more stressed by commuting than men.” Business Review Europe, 23 August 2011
“Daily grind hits mothers worst.” Metro UK, Tariq Tahir, 23 August 2011
“Daily ‘multitask’ commute seriously affecting women’s mental health.” Asian News International (ANI), 23 August 2011
“Daily ‘multitask’ commute seriously affecting women’s mental health.” Asian News International (ANI), 23 August 2011
“Women more stressed by commuting than men.” Targeted News Service, 22 August 2011
“Women more stressed by commuting than men.” Targeted News Service, 22 August 2011
“Commuting ‘worse for women’.” Press Association Mediapoint, John van Radowitz, 22 August 2011
LSE PRESS RELEASE – Women more stressed by commuting than men, 22 Agust 2011
PRESS RELEASE LSE
Title: Women more stressed by commuting than men
Authors: Jennifer Roberts , Paul Dolan
Publisher: LSE
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Links to media coverage about this Press Release:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/266632/Women-hit-worst-by-daily-commute
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/aug/22/communting-more-stressful-women-men
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2029073/Commuting-far-stressful-women-affect-mental-health-warn-experts.html
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/23/busy-mums-stressed-out-by-commuting-115875-23364857/
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/news/theme_news_detail.php?id=800706638&tab_id=116
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/women-suffer-more-stress-from-daily-travel/177935-19.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/health/2011/0823/1224302853228.html
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/women-suffer-more-stress-from-daily-travel/835817/
Thinking about It: A note on attention and well-Being losses from unemployment
Title: Thinking about It: A note on attention and well-Being losses from unemployment
Authors: Dolan P and Powdthavee N
Publisher: Applied Economics Letters
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Influencing financial behaviour: from changing minds to changing contexts
Title: Influencing financial behaviour: from changing minds to changing contexts
Authors: Dolan P, Elliott A, Metcalfe R and Vlaev I
Publisher: Journal of Behavioral Finance
ISSN: 1542-7560
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Destruction and distress: using a quasi-experiment to show the effects of the September 11 attacks on mental well-being in the United Kingdom
Title: Destruction and distress: using a quasi-experiment to show the effects of the September 11 attacks on mental well-being in the United Kingdom
Authors: Metcalfe, Robert and Powdthavee, Nattavudh and Dolan, Paul
Publisher: The economic journal, 121 (550)
ISSN: 1468-0297
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Measuring subjective well-being for public policy
Title: Measuring subjective well-being for public policy
Authors: Paul Dolan, Richard Layard and Robert Metcalfe.
Publisher: Office for National Statistics.
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“Will the Olympics Make Us Happier?” Targeted News Service, 05 April2011
“I’ve won the grand slam of happiness; a former tennis star ticks all the right boxes in a new formula for wellbeing, report Rosie Kinchen and Richard Goss”, The Sunday Times, Edition 1, Northern Ireland, page 7, 20 March 2011
“I’ve won the grand slam of happiness; a former tennis star ticks all the right boxes in a new formula for wellbeing, report Rosie Kinchen and Richard Goss”, The Sunday Times, Edition 1, Northern Ireland, page 7, 20 March 2011
LSE Inaugural Speech-Absolute Beginners: Behavioural Economics and Human Happiness. The London School of Economics, London, UK, February 8th 2011.
Chapter: Methodological issues in valuing the utility losses from crime
Book Title: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Crime Control
Chapter: Methodological issues in valuing the utility losses from crime
Authors: John K. Roman, Terence Dunworth, Kevin Marsh
Publisher: Urban Inst Pr
ISBN: 0877667667
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“All joy and no fun. Why parents hate parenting.” New York Magazine, Jennifer Senior, 12 July 2010
Transforming financial behaviour: developing interventions that build financial capability
Title: Transforming financial behaviour: developing interventions that build financial capability
Authors:Antony Elliott, Paul Dolan, Ivo Vlaev, Charles Adriaenssens & Ro-bert Metcalf
Publisher: Consumer Financial Education Body
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Valuing crime, cost-benefit and crime control
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Title: valuing crime, cost-benefit and crime control
Authors: Dolan P
Publisher: Urban Institute, 2010
Getting used to it: the adaptive global utility model
Title: Getting used to it: the adaptive global utility model
Authors: Bradford, W. David and Dolan, Paul
Publisher: Journal of health economics, 29 (6). pp. 811-820
ISSN: 0167-6296
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Abstract: This paper expands the standard model of utility maximization to endogenize the ubiquitous phenomenon of adaptation. We assume that total utility is an aggregate function of the utility associated with different domains of life, with relative weights that are optimized according to the effort that the individual expends on producing utility in each domain. Comparative statics from the general maximization problem demonstrate that the traditional Slutsky equation should incorporate an additional response term to account for adaptation processes. Our adaptive global utility maximization model can be used to explain responses to changes in health.
Thinking about it: thoughts about health and valuing QALYs
Title: Thinking about it: thoughts about health and valuing QALYs
Authors: Dolan, Paul
Publisher: Health economics
ISSN: 1057-9230
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Abstract: When valuing health states (e.g. for use in the assessment of health technologies), health economists often ask respondents how many years of life in poor health they would be willing to trade-off in order to live in full health. Problems with preferences of this kind have led to calls for the use of more direct measures of the utility associated with experiencing a health state. The fact remains, however, that individuals are often willing to make large sacrifices in life expectancy to alleviate conditions for which there appears to be a considerable degree of hedonic adaptation. The purpose of this study is to investigate this important discrepancy in more detail. Data from 1173 internet and telephone surveys in the United States suggest that time trade-off responses are related to the frequency and intensity of negative thoughts about health in ways that may not be very well captured by any of the proposed valuation methods.
‘Oops…I did it again’: repeated focusing effects in reports of happiness
Title: ‘Oops…I did it again’: repeated focusing effects in reports of happiness
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Metcalfe, Robert
Publisher: Journal of economic psychology, 31 (4). pp. 732-737
ISSN: 0167-4870
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Abstract: We use an experiment (relating to a major European soccer match) to replicate previous studies that show forecasts of the impact of an event on happiness are often greatly exaggerated. In addition, by randomising respondents into one of two groups (assessing happiness before and after the event or only after), we are also able to show that previously focusing on an event can affect subsequent happiness responses. From a final sample of 309 soccer fans contacted via a social networking site, the happiness ratings of the fans of the losing team who answered before and after the soccer match is a whole point lower (on a 0–10 scale) than similar fans who rated their happiness only after the event. The potential spillover of a focusing effect from one survey to the next has important implications for how we interpret happiness responses from longitudinal surveys.
Determining the parameters in social welfare function using stated preference data: an application to health
Title: Determining the parameters in social welfare function using stated preference data: an application to health
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Tsuchiya , Aki
Publisher: Applied economics, pp. 1466-4283
ISSN: 0003-6846
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Abstract: One way in which economists might determine how best to balance the competing objectives of efficiency and equity is to specify a social welfare function (SWF). This paper looks at how the stated preferences of a sample of the general public can be used to estimate the shape of the SWF in the domain of health benefits. The results suggest that it is possible to determine the parameters in a social welfare function from stated preference data, but show that people are sensitive to what inequalities exist and to the groups across which those inequalities exist.
Panel Discussion: Healthy Choices? With Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley MP. Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), London, UK, March 8th 2010
Mindspace: Influencing behaviour through public policy
Title: Mindspace: Influencing behaviour through public policy
Authors: Paul Dolan, Michael Hallsworth, Dominic King, Ivo Vlaev
Publisher: Institute for Government
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The trade-off between access, equity and cost-effectiveness
Title: The trade-off between access, equity and cost-effectiveness
Authors: Ratcliffe J, Bekker H, Dolan P, Edlin R
Publisher: Health Policy, 90, 45-57, 2009
ISSN:
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NICE should value real experiences over hypothetical opinions
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Title: NICE should value real experiences over hypothetical opinions
Authors: Dolan P.
Publisher: Nature 462, 7269, 35.
“Do children really make us happier?” Times Online Blog, Hattie Garlick, August 2009
“Do children really make us happier?” Times Online Blog, Hattie Garlick, August 2009
Accounting for the richness of daily activities
Title: Accounting for the richness of daily activities
Authors: White, Mathew P. and Dolan, Paul
Publisher: Psychological Science, 20 (8). pp. 1000-1008
ISSN: 0956-7976
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Abstract: Serious consideration is being given to the impact of private behavior and public policies on people’s subjective well-being (SWB). A new approach to measuring well-being, the day reconstruction method (DRM), weights the affective component of daily activities by their duration in order to construct temporal aggregates. However, the DRM neglects the potentially important role of thoughts. By adapting this method to include thoughts as well as feelings, we provide perhaps the most comprehensive measure of SWB to date. We show that some activities relatively low in pleasure (e.g., work and time with children) are nonetheless thought of as rewarding and therefore contribute to overall SWB. Such information may be important to policymakers wishing to promote behaviors that are conducive to a broader conception of SWB. In general terms, there are three approaches to assessing how well people’s lives are going. The first focuses on a range of objective indicators (e.g., freedoms and liberties, health and education level; Nussbaum & Sen, 1993). The second concerns the degree to which people are able to satisfy their desires, as (albeit somewhat badly) indexed by income (Griffin, 1986; Harsanyi, 1982). The third focuses on subjective well-being (SWB) and is generally defined as how people think and feel about their lives (Diener, Suh, Lucas, & Smith, 1999). There is considerable debate about how to weight these three kinds of measures, but all are important, especially for policy purposes (Diener, Lucas, Schimmack, & Helliwell, 2008; Diener & Seligman, 2004; Dolan & Kahneman, 2008; Dolan & White, 2007). Rather than address this issue here, we focus on the comprehensiveness of measures of SWB. Much of the research on SWB that has involved large samples has investigated the thinking, or evaluative, component, focusing on judgments of overall life satisfaction (Dolan, Peasgood, & White, 2008). Research concerning the moment-to-moment feelings, or affect, associated with specific activities has largely been confined to smaller samples because of practical considerations (Hektner, Schmidt, & Csikszentmihalyi, 2007). Both approaches have tended to neglect how long people spend in activities associated with these thoughts and feelings, and this is a potentially serious omission because “time is the ultimate finite resource and the question of how well people spend it is a legitimate issue in the study of well-being” (Kahneman, Schkade, Fischler, Krueger, & Krilla, 2008, p. 11). In response to this concern, Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, and Stone (2004) developed the day reconstruction method (DRM). This approach brings together measures that examine the feelings associated with specific activities (Hektner et al., 2007) with measures of how people spend their time (e.g., Bianchi, Robinson, & Milkie, 2006; Juster & Stafford, 1985). Specifically, it asks people to recall their previous day and divide it into episodes “like a series of scenes in a film”; for each episode, they record its duration, what they were doing, who they were with, and how they were feeling (using adjectives such as “happy” and “anxious”). In this way, the DRM allows subjective assessments of feelings to be weighted by their duration to derive a “hedonic calculus” for each episode and ultimately a person’s affective profile for an entire day. Because information about an entire day can be gathered at one time, responses can be obtained from reasonably large samples. However, the DRM has one major weakness: its focus on feelings. This has produced a number of puzzling and contentious findings. For instance, the data suggest that people spend considerable amounts of time in activities that provide relatively little SWB, such as commuting and spending time with their children. Richer people spend more time commuting, and Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, and Stone (2006) suggested that this fact partly explains why income has a small effect on feelings. The relatively low levels of positive feelings reported for spending time with children are claimed to be a more accurate reflection of experience than belief-based generic judgments, such as “I enjoy my kids” (Kahneman et al., 2004). However, it is possible that driving to work or playing with one’s children brings SWB benefits that are not captured by measures of feelings alone. These activities may be absorbing (Csikszentmihalyi, 1990), have purpose (Ryff, 1989; Seligman, 2002), connect one to other people (Ryan & Deci, 2001), and contribute to important personal goals (Cantor & Sanderson, 1999). In other words, commuting and spending time with one’s children may be thought of as rewarding and may contribute to one’s SWB every bit as much as some of the more pleasurable activities (like sex and watching TV) appear to. It may be entirely rational and reasonable for people to choose activities that generate relatively low levels of moment-to-moment affect if this outcome is compensated for by positive evaluations. The aim of the research we report here, then, was to provide a more complete account of SWB that captures feelings, thoughts, and their duration.
Valuing health directly
Title: Valuing health directly
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Lee, Henry and King, Dominic and Metcalfe, Robert
Publisher: British medical journal, 339 (jul20 )
ISSN: 0959-8138
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Abstract: Valuing the relative benefits of different treatments helps us to allocate scarce healthcare resources to where they do the most good. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) advises on the cost effectiveness of treatments and recommends that health benefits should be valued in terms of gains in quality adjusted life years (QALYs). This approach assigns a value between 0 (for death) and 1 (for full health) to each health state and then multiplies that value by how long the state lasts. It makes good sense to value health benefits by accounting for duration in this way. We do, however, have serious concerns about NICE’s recommendations for the “quality adjustment” part of the QALY. NICE suggests asking members of the general public to think about how many years of life they would be willing to trade to avoid different states of health. The trouble is that these hypothetical preferences often bear little relation to the real experiences of those in the health states. This article offers an alternative means of valuation that could help direct resources to treatments in proportion to the real suffering they alleviate.
The social welfare function and individual responsibility: some theoretical issues and empirical evidence
Title: The social welfare function and individual responsibility: some theoretical issues and empirical evidence
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Tsuchiya , Aki
Publisher: Journal of health economics, 28 (1). pp. 210-220
ISSN: 0167-6296
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Abstract: The literature on income distribution has attempted to evaluate different degrees of inequality using a social welfare function (SWF) approach. However, it has largely ignored the source of such inequalities, and has thus failed to consider different degrees of inequity. The literature on egalitarianism has addressed issues of equity, largely in relation to individual responsibility. This paper builds upon these two literatures, and introduces individual responsibility into the SWF. Results from a small-scale study of people’s preferences in relation to the distribution of health benefits are presented to illustrate how the parameter values of a SWF might be determined.
Equality of what in health? Distinguishing between outcome egalitarianism and gain egalitarianism
Title: Equality of what in health? Distinguishing between outcome egalitarianism and gain egalitarianism
Authors: Tsuchiya, Aki and Dolan, Paul
Publisher: Health economics, 18 (2). pp. 147-159
ISSN: 1057-9230
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Abstract: When deciding how to weigh benefits to different groups, standard economic models assume that people focus on the final distribution of utility, health or whatever. Thus, an egalitarian is assumed to be an egalitarian in the outcome space. But what about egalitarianism in the gains space, such that people focus instead on how equally benefits are distributed? This paper reports on a study in which members of the public were asked to rank a number of health programmes that differed in the distribution of benefits and final outcomes in ways that enabled us to distinguish between different types of egalitarianism. The results suggest that outcome egalitarianism dominates, particularly for differences in health by social class, but a sizeable minority of respondents appear to be gain egalitarians, especially when the health differences are by sex. These results have important implications for how we think about outcome-based social welfare functions in economics.
Examining the attitudes and preferences of health care decision-makers in relation to access, equity and cost-effectiveness: a discrete choice experiment
Title: Examining the attitudes and preferences of health care decision-makers in relation to access, equity and cost-effectiveness: a discrete choice experiment
Authors: Ratcliffe , Julie and Bekker , Hilary L. and Dolan , Paul and Edlin, Richard
Publisher: Health policy, 90 (1). pp. 45-57
ISSN: 0168-8510
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Abstract: To describe the views of health care decision-makers and providers operating in the UK National Health Service (NHS) concerning the concepts of cost-effectiveness, equity and access through a series of attitudinal questions; to evaluate the preferences of health care providers in relation to each of these concepts using a discrete choice experiment (DCE); to assess the impact of prior completion of an attitude questionnaire on preferences elicited through a DCE.
“NHS rationing: the time of their lives.” Health Service journal, Alison Moore, 27 October 2008
“NHS rationing: the time of their lives.” Health Service journal, Alison Moore, 27 October 2008
“The price of life – it was £20,000. Now NHS drugs body recalculates; National Institute for Clinical Excellence promises to take prompt action.” The Independent on Sunday, Nina Lakani, page 18, 12 October 2008.
“The price of life – it was £20,000. Now NHS drugs body recalculates;
National Institute for Clinical Excellence promises to take prompt action.” The Independent on Sunday, Nina Lakani, page 18, 12 October 2008.
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Innovation and well-being
Title: Innovation and well-being
Authors: Paul Dolan, Rob Metcalfe, Nick Powdthavee, Andy Beale, David Pritchard
Publisher: NESTA
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In defence of subjective well-being
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Title: In defence of subjective well-being
Authors: Dolan P.
Publisher: H. Econ, Policy & Law, 3, 1, 93-95, 2008.
Interpretations of utility and their implications for the valuation of health.
Title: Interpretations of utility and their implications for the valuation of health.
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Kahneman, Daniel
Publisher: Economic journal, 118 (525). pp. 215-234
ISSN: 1468-0297
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Abstract: The term utility can be interpreted in terms of the hedonic experience of an outcome (experienced utility) or in terms of the preference or desire for that outcome (decision utility). It is this second interpretation that lies at the heart of the methods that economists have developed to value non-market goods, such as health. In this article, we argue that decision utility is unlikely to generate meaningful data on the utility associated with different experiences, and instead economists should look towards developing measures that focus more directly on experienced utility.
Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being
Title: Do we really know what makes us happy? A review of the economic literature on the factors associated with subjective well-being
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Peasgood, Tessa and White, Mathew
Publisher: Journal of economic psychology, 29 (1). pp. 94-122
ISSN: 0167-4870
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Abstract: There is increasing interest in the “economics of happiness”, reflected by the number of articles that are appearing in mainstream economics journals that consider subjective well-being (SWB) and its determinants. This paper provides a detailed review of this literature. It focuses on papers that have been published in economics journals since 1990, as well as some key reviews in psychology and important unpublished working papers. The evidence suggests that poor health, separation, unemployment and lack of social contact are all strongly negatively associated with SWB. However, the review highlights a range of problems in drawing firm conclusions about the causes of SWB; these include some contradictory evidence, concerns over the impact on the findings of potentially unobserved variables and the lack of certainty on the direction of causality. We should be able to address some of these problems as more panel data become available.
Valuing lives and life years: anomalies, implications, and an alternative
Title: Valuing lives and life years: anomalies, implications, and an alternative
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Metcalfe, Robert and Munro, Vicki and Christensen, Michael C.
Publisher: Health economics, policy and law, 3 (03). pp. 277-300
ISSN: 1744-1331
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Abstract: Many government interventions seek to reduce the risk of death. The value of preventing a fatality (VPF) is the monetary amount associated with each statistical death that an intervention can be expected to prevent. The VPF has been estimated using a preference-based approach, either by observingmarket behaviour (revealed preferences) or by asking hypothetical questions that seek to replicate the market (stated preferences). The VPF has been shown to differ across and within these methods. In theory, the VPF should vary according to factors such as baseline and background risk, but, in practice, the estimates vary more by theoretically irrelevant factors, such as the starting point in stated preference studies. This variation makes it difficult to choose one unique VPF. The theoretically irrelevant factors also affect the estimates of the monetary value of a statistical life year and the value of a quality-adjusted life year. In light of such problems, it may be fruitful to focus more research efforts on generating the VPF using an approach based on the subjective well-being associated with different states of the world.
Measuring wellbeing for public policy: preferences or experiences?
Title: Measuring wellbeing for public policy: preferences or experiences?
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Peasgood, Tessa
Publisher: The Journal of legal studies, 37 (S2)
ISSN: 0047-2530
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Abstract: Policy makers seeking to enhance well-being are faced with a choice of possible measures that may offer contrasting views about how well an individual’s life is going. We suggest that choice of well-being measure should be based on three general criteria: (1) the measure must be conceptually appropriate (that is, are we measuring the right sort of concept for public policy?), (2) it must be valid (that is, is it a good measure of that concept?), and (3) it must be empirically useful (that is, does it provide information in a format that can be readily used by policy makers?). Preference-based measures (as represented by income) are compared to experience-based measures (as represented by subjective evaluations of life) according to these criteria. Neither set of measures meets ideal standards, but experiences do fare at least as well as preferences, and subjective evaluations perform much better than income alone as a measure of well-being.
Developing methods that really do value the ‘Q’ in the QALY
Title: Developing methods that really do value the ‘Q’ in the QALY
Author: Dolan, Paul
Publisher: Health economics, policy and law, 3 (01). pp. 69-77
ISSN: 1744-1331
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Abstract: Most health economists recommend that improvements in health be valued by asking members of the general public to imagine themselves in different states of health and then to think about how many years of life they would give up or what risk of death they would be willing to accept in order to be in full health. In this paper, I argue that preferences are not a very good guide to future experiences and a more suitable way to value health is to ask people in different states of health how they think and feel about their lives. Valuing health in this way may result in greater priority being given to mental health services. Whatever the precise implications, it is my contention that it is much better to ration health care according to real experiences rather than according to hypothetical preferences.
The relative societal value of health gains to different beneficiaries – final report
Title: The relative societal value of health gains to different beneficiaries – final report
Authors: Paul Dolan, Richard Edlin, Aki Tsuchiya
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Valuing the losses in well-being from crime and the fear of crime using experienced utility
Title: Valuing the losses in well-being from crime and the fear of crime using experienced utility
Authors: Dolan P and Moore S
Publisher: International Review of Victimology , 14, 2, 2007
ISSN:
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Chapters: The measurement and valuation of public safety; Being reasonable about equity and fairness: looking back, and extending the Williams’ Way
Book Title: The Ideas and Influence of Alan Williams: Be Reasonable – Do it My Way!
Chapter: The measurement and valuation of public safety; Being reasonable about equity and fairness: looking back, and extending the Williams’ Way
Authors: Anne Mason, Adrian Towse
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd; 1 edition (20 Sep 2007)
ISBN: 1846192315
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Chapter: The elicitation of distributional judgements
Book Title: The Elgar Companion to Health Economics (Elgar Original Reference)
Chapter: The elicitation of distributional judgements
Authors: Andrew M. Jones
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd; 1 edition (25 May 2007)
ISBN: 184720337X
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“The Joy Of Economics; Politicians are looking to the dismal science for ways to make us happier–but is the well-being state a bad idea?” Newsweek International Edition, Rana Foroohar with ith Quindlen Krovatin in Beijing, 07 May 2007
“The Joy Of Economics; Politicians are looking to the dismal science for ways to make us happier–but is the well-being state a bad idea?” Newsweek International Edition, Rana Foroohar with ith Quindlen Krovatin in Beijing, 07 May 2007
The measurement and valuation of public security
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Title: The measurement and valuation of public security
Authors: Dolan P and Tsuchiya A
Publisher: Tribute to Alan Williams, 2007
Being reasonable about equity and fairness: looking back, and extending the Williams’ Way
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Title: Being reasonable about equity and fairness: looking back, and extending the Williams’ Way
Authors: Tsuchiya A and Dolan P
Publisher: Tribute to Alan Williams, 2007
Do NHS clinicians and members of the public share the same views about reducing inequalities in health?
Title: Do NHS clinicians and members of the public share the same views about reducing inequalities in health?
Authors: Tsuchiya , Aki and Dolan, Paul
Publisher: Social science & medicine, 64 (12). pp. 2499-2503
ISSN: 0277-9536
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Abstract: Decisions about how to allocate resources in health care are as much about social value judgements as they are about getting the medical facts right. In this context, it is important to compare the social preferences of members of the general public with those of National Health Service (NHS) staff involved in service delivery. A questionnaire eliciting peoples’ preferences over maximising life expectancy and reducing inequalities in life expectancy between the highest and lowest social classes was completed by 271 members of the UK public and 220 NHS clinicians. The two samples have different preferences with the general public showing a greater willingness than clinicians to sacrifice total health for a more equal distribution of health. These differences may highlight tensions between what the public wants and what clinicians want, and should be subject to further investigation.
How can measures of subjective well-being be used to inform public policy?
Title: How can measures of subjective well-being be used to inform public policy?
Authors: Dolan, Paul and White, Mathew P.
Publisher: Perspectives on psychological science, 2 (1). pp. 71-85
ISSN: 1745-6916
Abstract: The debate surrounding the use of subjective measures of well-being for policy purposes has intensified in recent years. Many social scientists are arguing that the time is right for policymakers to extend their traditional focus on material well-being and economic development to include the impact policies have on how people think and feel about their lives. However, policymakers may have many legitimate goals beyond making people happy. In this article, we begin by presenting three archetypal accounts of well-being that policymakers could use to guide policy (mental-state, objective-list, and desire-fulfillment accounts) and discussing some of the normative and methodological limitations of each. We discuss how a subjective (mental-state) approach could be used to aid the achievement of objective-list and desire-fulfillment policy goals. We then consider ways in which a subjective approach may benefit policymakers in its own right, such as by aiding the valuation of hard-to-quantify costs and benefits, providing a standard unit of measurement for comparisons of well-being across domains, and helping to set policy defaults. We conclude with a discussion of some of the remaining measurement issues and general policy implications.
Developing a preference-based measure of public security
Title: Developing a preference-based measure of public security
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Netten , A. and Shapland , J. and Tsuchiya , Aki
Publisher: International review of victimology, 14 (2)
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It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it: characteristics of procedural justice and their importance in social decision-making
Title: It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it: characteristics of procedural justice and their importance in social decision-making
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Edlin, Richard and Tsuchiya , Aki and Wailoo, Allan
Publisher: Journal of economic behavior & organization, 64 (1). pp. 157-170
ISSN: 0167-2681
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Abstract: Standard welfare economic analysis evaluates all actions by their consequences. However, evidence from other disciplines suggests that the procedures by which decisions are made also affects the welfare of individuals. This paper outlines six characteristics on which judgements about procedural justice may be based. Using the example of health care rationing, we examine the importance of each characteristic using qualitative and quantitative methods. We further consider the importance of each of these characteristics relative to one another and examine whether they are important for consequential or non-consequential reasons.
“Government wants Brits happy.” Austin American-Statesman (Texas), Don Melvin, page A19, 11 February 2007
“Government wants Brits happy.” Austin American-Statesman (Texas), Don Melvin, page A19, 11 February 2007
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“New quest in British politics: public happiness.” Christian Science Monitor, Mark Rice-Oxley, Page 1, 17 January 2007
“New quest in British politics: public happiness.” Christian Science Monitor, Mark Rice-Oxley, Page 1, 17 January 2007
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“Happiness is a chat over the fence.” The Sunday Times, John Elliott, 07 January 2007
“Happiness is a chat over the fence.” The Sunday Times, John Elliott, 07 January 2007
The relative importance attached to cost-effectiveness, equity and access in the provision of health services, NHS Service, Delivery and Organisation
Title: The relative importance attached to cost-effectiveness, equity and access in the provision of health services, NHS Service, Delivery and Organisation
Authors: Paul Dolan, Hilary Bekker, Alan Brennan, Richard Edlin, Liddy Goyder, Sheila Kennedy, Jonathan Michaels, Carolyn Murray, Nick
Payne, Julie Ratcliffe, Jennifer Roberts, Yemi Oluboyede, Darren Shickle, Aki Tsuchiya
Publisher: Health services and delivery research programme (HS&DRP)
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Severity of illness and priority setting: Worrisome criticism of inconvenient finding? in reply to Erik Nord. J.
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Title: Severity of illness and priority setting: Worrisome criticism of inconvenient finding? in reply to Erik Nord. J.
Authors: Dolan P and Tsuchiya A
Publisher:
ISSN: Health Economics, 25, 1, 173-174, 2006.
The elicitation of distributional judgements
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Title: The elicitation of distributional judgements
Authors: Dolan P and Tsuchiya A
Publisher: Elgar companion to health economics, Jones A (ed), Elgar, 2006
Estimating the economic and social costs of the fear of crime
Title: Estimating the economic and social costs of the fear of crime
Authors: Dolan, Paul and Peasgood, Tessa
Publisher: British journal of criminology, 47 (1). pp. 121-132
ISSN: 0007-0955
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Abstract: A recent article in this journal, Dolan et al. (2005) provided a methodology for estimating the intangible costs (or losses in quality of life) from violent crime. Here, we develop that methodology to provide estimates of the intangible costs arising from the anticipation of possible victimisation; that is, estimates of the costs of fear of crime. These costs are categorised according to whether they result in non-health losses or health losses. Non-health losses are associated with a) changes in behaviour and/or b) changes in how society is viewed. Possible methods for measuring and valuing these non-health losses are discussed. However, the paper focuses on measuring and providing a provisional monetary valuation for the health losses arising from anticipating crime
Does the whole equal the sum of the parts? Patient-assigned utility scores for IBS-related health states and profiles
Title: Does the whole equal the sum of the parts? Patient-assigned utility scores for IBS-related health states and profiles
Authors: Brazier, John and Dolan, Paul and Karampela, Korina and Towers, Isabel
Publisher: Health economics, 15 (6). pp. 543-551
ISSN: 1057-9230
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Abstract: The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) assumes that the value of a health state is linearly related to the time spent in it, which implies that the value of a health state is independent of the states which precede or follow it. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a suitable condition to test this assumption since it is subject to considerable fluctuations over time. Forty-nine IBS patients were asked to rate their own health using generic measures of health and a condition specific classification. They were then asked to value five IBS states and four profiles using a self-completed version of the standard gamble technique. The implied value of each profile was estimated using the QALY assumption of linearity over time and compared with the direct profile valuations. The directly elicited profile values suggest that reductions in the duration of IBS symptoms has less of an impact on the value of quality of life than would be implied by the QALY assumption of linearity over time, though the differences were small. There are a number of competing explanations for this finding, including possible sequence effects, quantity effects or time preference, or it might be due to gestalt effects resulting in a neglect of time spent in symptomatic states of health
Dynamic well-being: connecting indicators of what people anticipate with indicators of what they experience
Title: Dynamic well-being: connecting indicators of what people anticipate with indicators of what they experience
Authors: Dolan, Paul and White, Mathew
Publisher: Social indicators research, 75 (2). pp. 303-333
ISSN: 0303-8300
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Abstract: There are many indicators of a person’s well-being that could be used for policy purposes. Few would argue that any single indicator of well-being is appropriate in all contexts and, increasingly, social scientists are attempting to integrate the various indicators. Further successful integration depends on understanding how the various indicators of well-being relate to one another in a dynamic way. This paper attempts to connect indicators of what people anticipate to indicators of what is actually experienced and, in so doing, inform the normative debate about the appropriateness of different indicators in policy contexts.