09
May
2023

Nature vs. nurture in human wellbeing

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Professor Maoliang Ye of Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen provided a new approach to the long-standing income-happiness question with new evidence from China at the latest of the Wellbeing Research Centre’s Seminar Series.

His research compares income data and happiness measures among monozygotic twins to attempt to examine nature versus nurture in human wellbeing, with intriguing implications for future policy interventions.

Watch the full presentation on the Centre’s YouTube channel.