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Stealing Happiness? The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of NEPI, preventing crime with cash and cognitive behavioural therapy

Explore our cost-effectiveness analysis of NEPI's innovative programme combining cash transfers and CBT to reduce crime in Liberia. With strong RCT evidence showing significant benefits to both recipients and the wider community, we estimate 22 WELLBYs per $1,000 donated. Read the report to learn how this promising intervention improves wellbeing and reduces criminality over the long term.

Does improving parenting practices in childhood lead to happier adults?

The experiences we have as young children are widely recognized as having lasting impacts in later life. 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. Download and read the report to explore the Happier Lives Institute’s cost-effectiveness analysis, measuring the programme’s impact on long-term wellbeing in WELLBYs.

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

Globally, 45 million children suffer from malnutrition, leading to 2.3 million child deaths annually. But even for those who live, the experience of malnutrition can have lifelong impacts on physical and cognitive health and social-emotional development. There is a consensus on how best to address extreme malnutrition: feeding kids a standard formula of peanut butter enhanced with vitamins and nutrients alongside basic medical care to prevent or treat infections. This intervention, known as community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), saves lives and improves health and development. What this report seeks to find out is how effective it is at also improving happiness.