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The society for research on Welfare and Policy (WAP) gathers researchers in economics and social sciences working on positive and normative approaches to understand well-being, behaviors and the implications for public policies

The society aims to support long-term international and comparative research while promoting evidence-based analyses in support to policy making.

ECOVID

ECOVID

Launch of international project on well-being, behavior and policy evaluation

WAP director, Olivier Bargain, takes the lead of a 4M€ research on “understanding Human well-being and behaviOr for better Policies & sociEties” (HOPE) based at Bordeaux University and funded by the government though IDEX initiatives.

EVENTS

EVENTS

WAP conference #1: “Individual and collective responses to a troubled world”

WAP conferences gather international researchers in economics, psychology and political sciences to discuss recent evidence on behavior and well-being and implication for public policies. The WAP#1 conference took place in Bordeaux on May 4-5 2023.

MEDIA

MEDIA

WAP expert clarifying the debate between green growth and de-growth (in french)

Research Professor at CNRS and WAP expert, Marc Fleurbaey, takes part to a roundtable attempting to clarify the debate between green growth and de-growth (‘Printemps de l’Economie’ 2022)