Academic papers Human wellbeing and machine learning Standard regression models explain surprisingly little of the variation in wellbeing, limiting our ability to predict it. In response, Oparina et. al assess the potential of machine learning to help us better understand wellbeing by analysing wellbeing data on over a million respondents from Germany, the UK, and […]
Four of our publications have been awarded prizes this year. In this post, we provide a summary of each publication and why the judges rated them so highly. Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, and Michael Plant | Read the post What’s the post about? We replicated GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis of […]
Summary Our charity recommendation for 2022 is StrongMinds, a non-profit that provides group psychotherapy for women in Uganda and Zambia who are struggling with depression. We compared StrongMinds to three interventions that have been recommended by GiveWell as being amongst the most cost-effective in the world: cash transfers, deworming pills, and anti-malarial bednets. We find […]
We’re delighted to welcome three new members to our team: Dr Lily Yu (Grants Strategist) Dr Ryan Dwyer (Senior Researcher) Rachel Strate (Operations Manager) Dr Lily Yu Grants Strategist Lily has worked at the intersection of philanthropy, research, innovation, and international development over the past decade. During this time, she has managed and advised on […]
We’re excited to introduce you to our 2022 cohort of summer research fellows. These four talented researchers will be joining us in July and August for a seven-week paid internship. Competition for places was very high this year with almost 200 applicants, more than a three-fold increase from the 60 applications we received for last […]
Our 2021 Annual Review The cost-effectiveness analyses of cash transfers, psychotherapy, and StrongMinds consumed most of our research capacity in 2021. However, we also published an updated research agenda and a new problem area report on mental health, to accompany our earlier report on pain. We were featured in Vox, The New Statesman, The Times, […]