Angus Deaton, the Nobel Prize, and Positive Psychology

Yesterday, the 2015 Nobel Prize for economics was awarded to British-American researcher Angus Deaton. While he received that honor for “for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare” – Deaton also conducted a lot of research (mostly later in his career) that is heavily related to Positive Psychology.

By way of example, he was involved in research on the relationship of:

• subjective wellbeing and age;
• subjective wellbeing and income;
• subjective wellbeing and body height;
• subjective wellbeing and religion;
• subjective wellbeing and parenthood.

Congratulations!