by Michael Plant | Jul 22, 2024
Celebrating Five Years of the Happier Lives Institute: Five Lessons We’ve Learned 1. Good ideas take time to bear fruit In HLI, we advocate for taking happiness seriously: using the evidence on happiness to work out how best to increase it, then taking action....
by Michael Plant | May 30, 2024
Site visit to StongMinds: Kampala, Uganda Download Report as PDF Reason for the visit In our prior research, we designated StrongMinds (‘SM’) as one of our ‘top’ charities: it is one of the best opportunities we have evaluated, so far, for cost-effectively improving...
by Michael Plant | May 30, 2024
Site visit to Friendship Bench: Harare, Zimbabwe Download Report as PDF Reason for the visit In our prior research, we designated Friendship Bench (‘FB’) as a ‘promising’ charity: we think it may be as, or more, cost-effective than the other options we’ve examined so...by Thomas Beuchot | Feb 6, 2024
Policies for wellbeing: A brief scoping review Download Report as PDF This is the summary of the report. Click the button above to read the pdf of the full report. Summary Thomas Beuchot (Ecole Normale Supérieure) was an HLI summer research fellow in 2022. His work...by Michael Plant | Dec 21, 2023
Can I get a little less life satisfaction, please? Download Report as PDF This is the summary of the working paper. Click the button above to read the pdf of the full paper. Abstract Since Parfit (1984), philosophers have standardly held there are three theories of...