Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Feasible future global scenarios for human life evaluations

  • Christopher Barrington-Leigh,
  • Eric Galbraith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08002-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Traditional studies of subjective well-being explain national differences using social and economic proxy variables. Here the authors build on this approach to estimate how global human well-being might evolve over the next three decades, and find that changes in social factors could play a much larger role than changes in economic outcomes.