Policies for wellbeing: A brief scoping review
Summary
In this report, I briefly scoped out the public policies that promise to be most effective at increasing wellbeing. The policies we found as most promising according to our grading criteria are mostly policies that are also widely valued and pursued outside of a wellbeing lens: unemployment, strong relationships, increased access to nature, and opportunities to volunteer.
Outline
In Section 1 I introduce the aim of the project and previous attempts to review the most promising policies governments can take to increase subjective wellbeing.
In Section 2 I explain the methods I used for this quick scoping review.
In Section 3 I present the results of my search and ranking of policies. Due to time constraints, I focus on discussing the most promising policies.
In Section 4 I discuss the limitations of the project, and recommend the steps future research should take to continue this project.