1. Understanding Happiness Daniel Sgroi

2. CAGE and Happiness Research
What influences national happiness
Understanding how happiness affects individual behaviour
Measuring happiness
The impact on policy

3. National Income & Happiness
The history of national income measurements
Income does matter…
…but it is not enough to measure true wellbeing

4. Our Measure: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Using text: sentiment analysis (psychology)
The market for books
Google books & big data
Matches survey data well (when they co-exist)
Tracking happiness back for 2 centuries

5. What Does Our Data Show? The short-run: wars & recessions
The long-run: health & longevity – diet, the big health issues, mortality – not income
Aspirations