EA Global will bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. Speakers and attendees share new thinking and research in the field of effective altruism and coordinate on global projects. The agenda includes: – Talks and discussions on the latest ideas at the frontiers of […]
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EA Global will bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. Speakers and attendees share new thinking and research in the field of effective altruism and coordinate on global projects. The agenda includes: - Talks and discussions on the latest ideas at the frontiers of […]
The aim of this conference is to speed the translation of interdisciplinary insights about our common humanity into breakthrough innovations that help us flourish together amid modern challenges. We invite professionals whose work contributes to the creation and sharing of new knowledge and innovations for human flourishing, regardless of discipline. This includes leading scientists, policymakers, […]
If you're feeling overwhelmed by all of the important problems in the world, and you'd like to make a difference, you're not alone. Effective Giving Day is designed to help you find causes that need the most support right now, learn how to support them and have a massive impact! You will also have the […]
The Nippon Foundation will launch the Asia Philanthropy Congress in Tokyo on November 19, 2022. It aims to leverage our extensive network to build a platform that will seek solutions to social problems through cross-sectoral collaboration. It will also provide a venue for setting agendas to address Asia’s social issues as well as facilitating dialogue […]
The Happier Lives Institute recently completed a cost-effectiveness analysis concluding that StrongMinds’ depression treatment is 9x more cost-effective than direct cash transfers for improving the life of an individual as well as their entire household. Join Dr Michael Plant, Founder and Director of the Happier Lives Institute, for a discussion about the Happier Lives Institute […]
EAGxRotterdam will bring together ambitious individuals in order to work on solving the world’s most pressing problems. The conference is an opportunity to create new connections and learn more about EA with topics suitable for everyone. The preliminary programme entails various talks, workshops, meetings, and plenty of time for networking, as well as getting to […]
Intervention prioritisation helps make Effective Altruism effective. Ways of measuring competing issues bear huge influence over what problems are investigated and which interventions are promoted. But what should we care about in global health? Must saving lives be our highest priority? Or should we think more about human wellbeing? Can we ensure new charities truly […]
Most people agree that happiness matters, even if they value other things too. Thanks to the growing field of subjective wellbeing research, it is now possible to work out the best ways to make people happier in a scientifically rigorous way. But such work has only just begun - it is new both to effective […]
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month, the Happier Lives Institute and Effective Altruism Philippines bring you Measuring Good Better, a virtual talk and Q&A about mental health and effective altruism. The main speaker will be Dr Michael Plant, Founder and Director of the Happier Lives Institute.
EA Global will bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. Speakers and attendees share new thinking and research in the field of effective altruism and coordinate on global projects.
EAGxBerlin 2022 will bring together ambitious students and professionals to learn, connect and collaborate to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Five years after the last EAGxBerlin, we're excited to welcome 500-1000 people for a weekend full of talks, workshops and networking to help each other figure out how to do the most good.
It’s been over two years since our last in-person EAGxSingapore/Asia conference. We are thrilled to organize this conference again— bigger and better than before! The event will bring together over 200 members of the EA community to connect with each other, and to explore the best ways to improve the world. We invite everyone in […]
EA Global will bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. Speakers and attendees share new thinking and research in the field of effective altruism and coordinate on global projects.
The inaugural Wellbeing Research & Policy Conference will bring together scholars and policymakers to discuss the latest research, insights, and developments in the field of wellbeing science. The conference will be held over three days at the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre in Worcester College, University of Oxford, featuring plenary speakers, panel discussions, policy roundtables, and […]
Global priorities research investigates the question, ‘What should we do with our limited resources, if our goal is to do the most good?’ This question has close connections with central issues in philosophy and economics, among other fields. This event will focus on the longtermism paradigm and general issues in cause prioritisation.
HLI's Founder and Director, Dr Michael Plant, will present his latest thinking on determining the neutral point of wellbeing scales.
Join Michael Plant, the Founder and Director of the Happier Lives Institute and Sean Mayberry, StrongMinds Founder & CEO, for a discussion about HLI's recent research and how it disrupts prevailing thinking in the world of charitable giving.
How can we make the future better if we can’t make it better for anyone in particular? Speaking at GPI's weekly lunchtime seminar, Michael raised an axiological challenge to longtermism, the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time.
The event will bring together over 500 members of the EA community to connect with each other, and to explore the best ways to improve the world.
Progress Studies has been popularised by academics such as Tyler Cowen and Steven Pinker. In this session, Michael will explain why the Easterlin Paradox presents a real challenge to the claim that if we want more progress, we just need to improve the long-run growth rate - a view that Cowen argues for in his […]
Comparisons across species are not straightforward because there are significant differences between animals with respect to their cognitive, affective, and sensory capabilities. Such comparisons require input from many fields, including animal welfare science, evolutionary biology, comparative cognition, neuroethology, ecology, economics, philosophy, and others. This breadth of perspective is essential to understand the differences between species, […]
Sam and Joy participated in a fireside chat discussing their work on effective mental health and wellbeing. The EA for Christians Annual Conference brings together Christians who are passionate about using reason and evidence to tackle the world’s most pressing problems.
EA Global will bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. Speakers and attendees share new thinking and research in the field of effective altruism and coordinate on global projects.
Back after a three-year hiatus, EAGxBoston welcomes members of the effective altruism community to our 2022 conference, featuring networking, speaker events, workshops, and mentorship. This event will be especially useful for students who want to learn more about effective altruism and make connections within the movement.
EAGxOxford 2022 will bring together students and young professionals interested in EA to connect, learn, and explore how best to improve the world. We're excited to welcome over 400 people for a weekend of networking, workshops, talks and a career fair, and help them work out their path to impact.
The progress studies community has had a lot of discussion about technology, economics, history, and politics. However, there is no consensus on the moral basis for valuing or pursuing “progress,” and there are key open questions about how progress is to be judged and measured, who should benefit from it, and what type of progress we should pursue. The goal of this workshop is to reach a consensus on what major moral/ethical questions are at the foundations of a study of progress, and what broad answers to these questions have been proposed.
Joel McGuire presented our comparison of the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers and psychotherapy in terms of subjective wellbeing and mental health.
This hybrid workshop was held over two days at the University of Oxford to discuss topics covered in The Science of Wellbeing, the first textbook to be published on the subject. The textbook is co-authored by Prof Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Prof Lord Richard Layard, and will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. The […]
Panelists: Joel McGuire, Research Analyst at Happier Lives Institute Laura B. Rawlings, Lead Economist at Human Capital Project, World Bank Prof. Frank Schilbach, Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Prof. Lisa Gennetian, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University Moderator: Renos Vakis, Lead Economist at eMBeD, […]
Joel McGuire presented our systematic review and meta-analysis on the impact of cash transfers on subjective wellbeing and mental health in low- and middle-income countries.
Michael Plant provides a brief overview of the main approaches to aggregating individual advantage - utilitarianism, egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and leximin. Social scientists are not very familiar with this literature, even though you cannot use subjective wellbeing measures without (implicitly) making a choice. The use of subjective wellbeing measures is implicitly utilitarian: the best outcome is the […]
Recordings from a two-day workshop on fundamental issues in the measurement of subjective wellbeing.
In several countries, lockdowns have reduced the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and thereby of deaths from COVID-19. Despite this, they have been controversial. Some claim that they violate basic rights or freedoms. This seminar will focus on a different objection: do the benefits of lockdowns outweigh the costs? Asking that question leads to others: […]
Even though mental disorders account for a considerable burden of disease globally and appear to strongly impact individuals’ subjective well-being, the EA community has spent relatively little effort on identifying the best giving opportunities within the area of mental health. This talk provides an introduction to the Happier Lives Institute’s Mental Health Programme Evaluation Project […]
Michael Plant presented his working paper on life satisfaction theories.
Michael Plant presented his working paper on the comparability of subjective scales.
Effective altruists want to do as much good as possible. But how should we measure how much good different outcomes do? So far, effective altruists have tended to use income and standardised health metrics (QALYs and DALYs) as the measures of what matters. This talk is primarily a plea for subjective well-being (SWB) - individuals’ […]
Michael Plant delivered a ‘prequel’ to his talk at EA Global: London 2017 to address theoretical concerns about the nature and measurement of wellbeing.
All plausible moral theories agree increasing the happiness of currently existing people during their lifetimes is intrinsically good. Despite, or perhaps because of, this agreement, surprisingly little work has been done to find out what the most effective ways to improve world happiness are. In this short talk, Michael Plant shares his current conclusions and […]