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 […]
Academic papers A local community course that raises wellbeing and pro-sociality: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial Krekel et al. present evidence that the Action for Happiness course, which is run in hundreds of communities across the UK and around the world, results in a 1-point increase in life satisfaction two months after the course […]