University of Sheffield Studentship

 Aggregating multi-domain wellbeing across individuals

Funded PhD supervised by Professor Aki Tsuchiya and Professor Robin Purshouse

Public policies need to be evaluated across multiple domains (or dimensions) of wellbeing. In engineering, this is known as a multi-objective optimisation problem. In welfare economics, there are different approaches for aggregating multi-domain wellbeing across individuals.  Of interest here is whether or not the aggregation should be linear additive.  This PhD will look at the role of aversion to inequalities across individuals in terms of overall wellbeing and/or domain specific wellbeing, and their effects on aggregation.  The project will involve a literature review, the analysis of secondary data, collection of stated preference primary data, and a case study using multi-criteria decision-analysis.

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