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Ruut Veenhoven was born on 30 November, 1941 in The Hague, Netherlands, is a Dutch sociologist. Discover Ruut Veenhoven's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?
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30 November, 1942 |
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30 November |
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The Hague, Netherlands |
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Netherlands
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Ruut Veenhoven Height, Weight & Measurements
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Ruut Veenhoven Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ruut Veenhoven worth at the age of 82 years old? Ruut Veenhoven’s income source is mostly from being a successful Miscellaneous. He is from Netherlands. We have estimated Ruut Veenhoven's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Ruut Veenhoven (born 1942) is a Dutch sociologist and a pioneer on the scientific study of happiness, in the sense of subjective enjoyment of life.
His work on the social conditions for human happiness at Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands has contributed to a renewed interest in happiness as an aim for public policy.
He has shown that happiness can be used a reliable measure to assess progress in societies which was one of the sources of inspiration for the United Nations to adopt happiness measures as a holistic approach to development.
Veenhoven is the founding director of the World Database of Happiness and a founding editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies.
He has been described as "The Godfather of happiness studies", and "a leading authority on worldwide levels of happiness from country to country", whose work "earned him international acclaim".
Veenhoven was born in The Hague in the Netherlands in 1942.
He graduated in 1962 from the Nederlands Lyceum in The Hague and received a master's degree in sociology (specializing in public management) from Erasmus University in Rotterdam (1969).
Subsequently, he completed a PhD in the Social Sciences also at Erasmus, with a dissertation on "The Condition of Happiness".
Between 1970 and 1990 Veenhoven was a leading advocate of abortion law reform and in promoting acceptance of voluntary childlessness in The Netherlands.
In 1984 Veenhoven earned his doctorate on the dissertation ‘Conditions of Happiness’ that synthesized the results of 245 empirical studies on happiness.
On that basis he developed the World Database of Happiness, which now covers some 40,000 research findings taken from 8,000 empirical investigations.
Since 1985 he has been director of the World Database of Happiness at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
He was also registered as a social-sexologist (1994–2000).
From 1995 until 2002 he was extraordinary professor of Humanism at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands (Piet Thoenes chair).
His contribution to the field of happiness studies was described in the Festschrift The Pope of Happiness.
Since 2001 he was a special professor at North-West University in South Africa.
After his retirement in 2007 he joined the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Organization (Ehero).
Veenhoven is mentioned in the top 5% of authors in his field (December 2012).
The International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) has awarded Veenhoven several times:
His main research subject is happiness in the sense of subjective enjoyment of life.
His main aim is to add to happiness for as much people as possible, by allowing individuals and organizations to make better informed decisions.
Worldwide he is seen as a pioneer in that field.
