WELL-BEING AND UTILITY IN PSYCHOLOGY AND ECONOMICS

这个项目汇集了一个由心理学家和经济学家组成的紧密联系的跨学科团队，他们代表了许多不同的观点，研究如何最好地评估整体福利及其决定因素。整体福利在这里指的是一种综合衡量各种领域的经济效用和主观效用，并考虑到个人价值差异的指标。作为公共政策选择和个人选择的基础，对总体福利的衡量具有极其重要的实际意义。例如，社会保障和医疗保险 政策涉及随着时间的推移，以及影响健康的支出、人们退休的能力和其他公共优先事项之间的权衡，这些优先事项必须通过隐含或明确的整体福利概念来分类。在即将退休或即将退休的人群中，个人的选择面临着同样类型的权衡，其研究也需要改进的测量技术和分析策略。

This project brings together a tight-knit interdisciplinary team of psychologists and economists representing many different viewpoints to study how best to assess overall welfare and its determinants. The term overall welfare refers here to a summary measure that incorporates economic and subjective utilities in a variety of domains, with consideration of individual value differences. Measurement of overall welfare is of immense practical importance as a basis for public policy choices as well as personal choices. For example, Social Security and Medicare policies involve tradeoffs both over time and between expenditures that influence health, the ability of people to retire, and other public priorities, which must be sorted out by either an implicit or explicit concept of overall welfare. Personal choices by individuals in the cohorts in or nearing retirement face the same kinds of tradeoffs whose study also requires improved measurement techniques and analytic strategies.