by Michael Plant | Jul 15, 2022
A philosophical review of Open Philanthropy’s Cause Prioritisation Framework Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Summary In this post, I undertake a philosophical review of Open Philanthropy’s Global Health and Wellbeing Cause Prioritisation Framework, the...
by Michael Plant | Jun 22, 2022
Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies Progress Studies has been popularised by academics such as Tyler Cowen and Steven Pinker. However, the Easterlin Paradox presents a real challenge to the claim that...
by Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret and Michael Plant | Apr 2, 2022
Happiness for the whole family Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Executive Summary We update our earlier cost-effectiveness comparison of psychotherapy and cash transfers (both implemented in low-income countries) by including an estimate of the total...
by Matthew Coleman | Feb 1, 2022
Affective forecasting Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum This report was produced as part of the Happier Lives Institute’s 2021 Summer Research Fellowship 1. Summary People make mistakes when predicting the intensity and duration of their own and others’...
by Joel McGuire and Michael Plant | Oct 5, 2021
Donating money, buying happiness Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum April 2022: Update to our analysis This version of the report excluded the intra-household spillovers of psychotherapy and cash transfers. Since then, we have updated our analysis to...
