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Jon Franklin

@jonfranklin.bsky.social

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Chief Economist at Pro Bono Economics

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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How can we give policymakers the timely, causal, granular evidence they need to respond to crises as they unfold? A short thread on our updated working paper with @trfetzer.com, @christinavpalmou.bsky.social and @iyotzov.bsky.social.

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Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Mental health support doesn’t need to be in a stuffy clinical environment!

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Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

LGBTQ+ young people are a group that disproportionately live with lower wellbeing. We now have great new evidence that the right support can make a difference for them. Many thanks to Karol Rodriguez-Cabrera as well as @neilhumphrey.bsky.social and his team at @beewelluk.bsky.social

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Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Great new evidence from Rachel Gomez on the longterm impacts of children’s mental health. For the geeks among us…it goes beyond looking at correlations and shows that improvements in mental health as a child lead to better outcomes, even after controlling for a host of other factors.

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Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

UK is still recovering from the "wellbeing recession". Latest data from the ONS shows that average Life Satisfaction in the first quarter of 2025 remained 1.3% down on pre-pandemic levels.

Line chart showing average life satisfaction in the UK. Increases from 7.4 in 2011 to 7.7 in 2019, before declining rapidly to 7.3 during the pandemic. It then partially recovers in 2021 but has remained between 7.4 and 7.6 since that time.

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Carnegie UK @carnegieuk.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Great to see @guardianheather.bsky.social make the case for better measures of social progress, pointing to research by our friends @pbe.co.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Why Labour should target happiness alongside economic growth | Heather Stewart

With the UK still shaking off the psychological side-effects of Covid, Rachel Reeves might want to broaden her aims

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Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Great article from @guardianheather.bsky.social - "a more direct focus on making the UK a happier place might help to improve decision-making" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Why Labour should target happiness alongside economic growth | Heather Stewart

With the UK still shaking off the psychological side-effects of Covid, Rachel Reeves might want to broaden her aims

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Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Why has the nation’s wellbeing not bounced back following the pandemic? Deteriorations in our physical health, mental health and loneliness explain much of the increase in ‘wellbeing poverty’. We won’t see a recovery in the nation’s wellbeing outlook until we see improvements in these key drivers.

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Jon Franklin @jonfranklin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Great piece from @sarahdavidson.bsky.social. Highlights that “overall, our governments have yet to convince us that they are using the available wellbeing data” There’s more that can be done to tackle key drivers of low wellbeing as discussed in our new report coming out next week!

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