This month, we’re delighted to welcome three new members to our team: Dr Lily Yu (Grants Strategist), Dr Ryan Dwyer (Senior Researcher), and Rachel Strate (Operations Manager).

We propose the wellbeing-adjusted life year (WELLBY), the SWB equivalent of the DALY or QALY, as the obvious framework to do cost-effectiveness analyses of non-health, non-pecuniary benefits. As our previous work has shown, using WELLBYs can change funding priorities by giving more weight to improving mental health, compared to DALYs or income measures; and they may reveal different priorities in other areas too.

We provide four recommendations to improve the clarity and transparency of GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analyses. These are to (1) publicly explain and defend their assumptions about the effect of deworming over time; (2) explain their cost-effectiveness analyses in writing; (3) illustrate the sensitivity of their results to key parameters; (4) make it clear when an estimate is subjective or evidence-based.

We’re excited to introduce you to our 2022 cohort of summer research fellows who will be joining us in July and August for a seven-week paid internship. Their projects will help to deepen our understanding of the nature and measurement of wellbeing and identify cost-effective ways for individuals and governments to increase it.

Our latest newsletter includes a review of our work in 2021 and explains how we've updated our cost-effectiveness comparison of psychotherapy and cash transfers to include an estimate of the effects on other household members.

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be running our summer research fellowship again this year The fellowship ...

Comparing psychotherapy and cash transfers in terms of subjective well-being We’ve just published new ...

This year, we are running our first Summer Research Fellowship. We received over 60 applications for the ...

CLOSING SOON Come and work with us We’re expanding our team and we’re excited to advertise the following ...

The Happier Lives Institute is searching for the best ways to measure and improve global well-being; we conduct ...

We're excited to share three new major pieces of work - on cash transfers, measuring well-being, and pain - which ...

We’ve made a lot of progress over the last three months, and we’re excited to share our latest research with you ...

We hope you are keeping safe and well during this challenging period. We’ve been pleased to see that the effects ...

Our research falls into two streams. First, theoretical research into the nature and measurement of subjective ...

The story so far The Happier Lives Institute was formed in late 2018 by a group of committed individuals ...