Teaching happiness (economics) in your dismal-science courses

Cooper, K. B., Heffetz, O., Ifcher, J., Oparina, E.ORCID logo & Wu, S. (2025). Teaching happiness (economics) in your dismal-science courses. Journal of Economic Education, 57(2).
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This paper discusses ideas for incorporating the study of happiness and other measures of self-reported or subjective well-being (SWB) into undergraduate economics courses. We begin by motivating why students of economics would benefit from learning about SWB, and then proceed to provide examples of ways to introduce this topic into different parts of the curriculum: macroeconomics, microeconomics, and upper division electives.
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Copyright holders © 2025 The Author(s)
Departments LSE > Academic Departments > School of Public Policy
LSE > Research Centres > Centre for Economic Performance
Date Deposited 21 Oct 2025
Acceptance Date 16 Oct 2025
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129888

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