[Video] Doing good better with the wellbeing framework

Dupret (2024)

I present HLI's work at the Christians for Impact 2024 London conference.

Does improving parenting practices in childhood lead to happier adults?

McGuire, Stewart, Dupret, Dwyer, and Plant (2024)

Supporting parents to engage with their children shows clear short-term developmental benefits and may have profound long-term effects on wellbeing, as well as health and achievement later in life. This report evaluates icddr,b's Reach Up parenting programme.

Toxic Cosmetics: A shallow evaluation of Pure Earth advocacy against leaded cosmetics in Ghana

Stewart, Dupret, McGuire, Dwyer, and Plant (2024)

We evaluate Pure Earth’s program to reduce lead in cosmetics in Ghana, involving two years of advocacy and data collection followed by three years of enforcement support for a lead ban.

The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of StrongMinds and Friendship Bench: Combining a systematic review and meta-analysis with charity-related data (Nov 2024 Update)

McGuire, Dupret, Dwyer, Plant, Stewart, Goddard, Klapow, Giraldi, Olshin, Michelet, and Beuchot (2024)

Psychotherapy is an effective treatment that can be delivered cheaply by lay counsellors. This in-depth report evaluates the cost-effectiveness of two charities providing such therapy in Africa: Friendship Bench and StrongMinds.

Does a well-fed infancy make for a more felicitous life? How treating malnutrition impacts happiness: a charity evaluation of Taimaka

McGuire, Stewart, Dupret, Dwyer, and Plant (2024)

A cost-effectiveness evaluation of Taimaka, a charity which delivers community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), which saves lives and improves health and development in a cost-effective manner.

Converting measures of mental health and wellbeing into WELLBYs

Dupret, McGuire, Dwyer, and Plant (2024)

We find that results on affective mental health measures do not differ significantly from results on typicall subjective wellbeing measures.

August 2024 interim update to ‘Talking through depression: The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy in LMICs, revised and expanded’

McGuire, Dupret, Dwyer, Plant, and Stewart (2024)

An update to our previous psychotherapy evaluation.

[video] The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy in low- and middle-income countries - STATEC 2024

Dupret (2024)

I present HLI's latest work at STATEC 2024.

[video] Setting wellbeing priorities in the real world - Wellbeing Research Centre (University of Oxford)

Dupret (2024)

I present HLI's latest work at Wellbeing Research Centre (University of Oxford).

HLI’s Giving Season 2023 Research Overview

HLI (2023)

In this report, we provide an overview of all our evaluations to date as well as our conclusions for Giving Season 2023.

Talking through depression: The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy in LMICs, revised and expanded

McGuire, Dupret, Dwyer, Plant, and Klapow (2023)

In this substantial update to our work on psychotherapy we conduct a systematic review, a meta-analysis, and cost-effectiveness analyses of two charities who deliver psychotherapy (StrongMinds and Friendship Bench). This is a working report that will be updated over time, results may change.

[video] Taking subjective wellbeing seriously - EAGx Warsaw

Dupret (2023)

I present HLI's latest work at EAGx Warsaw.

[video] [French] Mesurer le bien-être pour l'impact - Altruisme Efficace France

Dupret (2023)

Je présente la recherche du Happier Lives Institute à Altruisme Efficace France.

[video] Subjective Well-being measures from the Happier Lives Institute and relevant next steps

Dupret (2023)

I present HLI's work at the Christian Impact Conference in DC. I also present some Christian views on wellbeing (these are not representative of the views of my employer).

Lead Exposure: a shallow cause exploration

McGuire, Dupret, Plant, and Dwyer (2023)

We explore the impact of lead exposure on subjective wellbeing. We review the literature, model the impact of lead exposure on wellbeing, and conduct some back-of-the-envelope calculations of the cost-effectiveness of various interventions to decrease lead exposure.

Can we trust wellbeing surveys? A pilot study of comparability, linearity, and neutrality

Samuelsson, Dupret, Plant, and Kaiser (2023)

We present a pilot of 50 survey questions we intend to use to assess questions of comparability, linearity, and neutrality in subjective wellbeing measurements.

Immigration reform: a shallow cause exploration

McGuire, Dupret, Plant, and Dwyer (2023)

We explore the impact of immigration on subjective wellbeing. We review the literature, model the impact of immigration on wellbeing, and conduct some back-of-the-envelope calculations of the cost-effectiveness of various interventions to increase immigration.

Pain relief: a shallow cause exploration

Dupret, McGuire, and Plant (2023)

We explore the relationship between pain and subjective wellbeing; assess the severity and scale of chronic pain in terms of life satisfaction; and offer some novel back-of-the-envelope calculations for the cost-effectiveness of several interventions to treat pain.

A can of worms

Dupret, McGuire, Dwyer, and Plant (2022)

Deworming has non-significant effects on long-term happiness. Converging information suggests to us that there is no effect. We cannot recommend deworming interventions at this point in time.

The elephant in the bednet

Plant, McGuire, and Dupret (2022)

To compare the value of saving lives to improving lives we need to make various philosophical assumptions.

A dozen doubts about GiveWell's numbers

McGuire, Plant, and Dupret (2022)

We raise twelve critiques of GiveWell's cost-effectiveness analyses.

Ten apply to specific inputs for malaria prevention, cash transfers, deworming, and two are relevant for more than one intervention.

To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Measuring non-health, non-pecuniary benefits using subjective wellbeing

McGuire, Dupret, and Plant (2022)

We argue that the wellbeing-adjusted life year (WELLBY) is the best measure of the good interventions do. This was for Open Philanthropy's Cause Exploration Prizes.

Deworming and decay: Replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis

McGuire, Dupret, and Plant (2022)

We critise GiveWell for a lack of clarity in their deworming analysis.

Notably, the data suggests a decay in benefits over time that their analysis does not include.

Happiness for the whole family

McGuire, Dupret, and Plant (2022)

We incorporate household spillover effects in our cost-effectiveness analysis of cash transfers and psychotherapy.

We find that psychotherapy (StrongMinds) is 9 times more cost-effective than cash transfer (Give Directly).