Happiness education? Education around the Economy of Happiness in Bolivia and México

• Franz R. Arce Velasco

  , Universidad Privada Domingo Savio, Tarija-Bolivia

  Author

• Elizabeth Becerril Díaz

  , Universidad Albert-Einstein, México

  Author

The creation of public policies in education should be generated from research focused on education, economy and happiness, as an end in itself. The objective of the study is to investigate the relevant aspects on which an educational policy should be focused on achieving happiness; The research uses a quantitative, non-experimental descriptive, direct method of well-being related to the
concept of happiness, calculates happiness indicators and captures the cognitive and emotional components of individual subjective well-being, around young people and adolescents in Bolivia and Mexico. Methodology consisted of a case study developed
under a quantitative analytical approach. With this, statistical and econometric analysis techniques are used, as well as the use of specialized software (SPSS and STATA programs). And the instrument will be that applied by Ahn and Mochón (2011). The research discusses the evidence accumulated as a result of the performance of two primary social dimensions such as education and the economy; measures and proposes education as a way to achieve subjective well-being understood as happiness. The level
of happiness according to type of locus is higher for young people and adolescents with a high locus of internal control, it is higher for Bolivia; the level of happiness is lower for people with a high external locus of control with a higher level for México.
The comparable empirical evidence collected around youth and adolescents in Bolivia and México, presents the importance of education to achieve subjective well-being - happiness-, proposes to base educational learning with apparently different contexts
with surprisingly similar elements on topics such as family, personal success, personal relationships and personality formation.

1. Franz R. Arce Velasco, , Universidad Privada Domingo Savio, Tarija-Bolivia

   Economista, Licenciado en Economía (Universidad Católica Boliviana San Pablo), Magíster en Políticas Públicas (facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile), investigador senior Universidad Privada Domingo Savio, sede Tarija.

2. Elizabeth Becerril Díaz, , Universidad Albert-Einstein, México

   Licenciada en Ciencias de la Educación, Especialista en Competencias Docentes de Educación Media Superior (EMS) de México, investigadora en la Preparatoria Oficial del Estado de México y la Universidad Albert Einstein.

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