Index of policy proposal videos for Policies for Better Lives conference


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You can also see video playlists grouped by theme; just click on one of the coloured themes below.
Shorter work week
Anke Plagnol
Associate Professor and Programme Director in Behavioural Economics, City University of London
PANELIST Labour market and workplaces
Organizing for underrepresented workers
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Professor and Scientist at the Institute for Economic Analysis, Director of GSE Master Program in the Economics of Public Policy, University of Barcelona
PANELIST Labour market and workplaces
Group-targeted social prescribing
Alex Haslam
Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow, University of Queensland
PANELIST Urban life and community
Intergenerational classroom
John Helliwell and Keri Albert
University of British Columbia; Saskatoon Public Schools
Psychosocial and children Urban life and community
Advertising
Andrew Oswald
Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, Warwick University
PANELIST Income and consumption
Promoting children's wellbeing in schools
Sarah Flèche
CNRS Research Fellow at the Sorbonne Economic Centre (University Paris 1), Research Associate at the LSE Centre for Economic Performance
PANELIST Psychosocial and children
National Volunteering System (NVS)
Christian Krekel
Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics
Urban life and community
Healthy Minds
Richard Layard
Lord Professor and Founder-Director of LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance and Co-director of the Centre’s program on Community Wellbeing
PANELIST Psychosocial and children
Investing in Natural Infrastructure
Susana Ferreira
Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia
Environment
Teaching the importance of luck
Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee
Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, IZA Research Fellow
PANELIST Income and consumption
Investing in children's mental health and wellbeing
Mathieu Perona
Observatoire du Bien-être du CEPREMAP / Well-being Observatory Directeur exécutif / Executive director
Psychosocial and children
Taxation innovations
Paul Frijters
Professor of Wellbeing Economics, London School of Economics
PANELIST Income and consumption
Flexible employment and working from home
Eleftherios Giovanis
Assistant Professor of Economics. Università degli Studi di Verona
Labour market and workplaces
Happy and sustainable cities
Stefano Bartolini
Professor of Happiness Economics and Political Economy at the University of Siena
PANELIST Urban life and community
Cities sharing wellbeing policies and data
Dan Haybron
Saint Louis University
Urban life and community
Policies to improve the lives of Canadian children
Shelley Phipps
Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University
PANELIST Psychosocial and children
Inequality and trust
William Tov
Singapore Management University
Urban life and community
Life satisfaction in program evaluation
Conal Smith
University of Wellington
Institutions and governance
Life satisfaction and housing
Arthur Grimes
Professor at the School of Government, Wellington School of Business and Government, and inaugural holder of the Chair of Wellbeing and Public Policy. He is also a Senior Fellow at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research in Wellington.
Urban life and community
Air pollution
Paul Frijters
Professor of Wellbeing Economics, London School of Economics
Environment
Undergraduate mental health
Zachary Ayers
Graduate student Department of Psychology State University of New York College at Brockport
Psychosocial and children
Childcare
Pierre Fortin
Professeur émérite, Département des sciences économiques, L’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Psychosocial and children
Socio-cultural activities
Eleftherios Giovanis
Assistant Professor of Economics. Università degli Studi di Verona
Psychosocial and children
Mental health
Guy Mayraz
Department of Economics, University of Sydney
Psychosocial and children
Community cooking lessons
Paul Frijters
Professor of Wellbeing Economics, London School of Economics
PANELIST Urban life and community
Happy sustainability
Liz Dunn and Jiaying Zhao
University of British Columbia
Environment