by Michael Plant, Joel McGuire and Samuel Dupret | Nov 18, 2022
The elephant in the bednet: the importance of philosophy when choosing between extending and improving lives Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Summary How should we compare the value of extending lives to improving lives? Doing so requires us to make...
by Joel McGuire, Michael Plant and Samuel Dupret | Nov 1, 2022
A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum This essay was written for GiveWell’s Change Our Mind Contest1Joel produced the critiques and did most of the reasoning, calculations and writing. Michael and Samuel provided...
by Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret and Michael Plant | Apr 2, 2022
Happiness for the whole family Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Executive Summary We update our earlier cost-effectiveness comparison of psychotherapy and cash transfers (both implemented in low-income countries) by including an estimate of the total...
by Joel McGuire and Michael Plant | Oct 2, 2021
Cash transfers: cost-effectiveness analysis Cash Transfers | Interventions This report explains how we determined the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers using subjective wellbeing and affective mental health. Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum April...
by Joel McGuire, Caspar Kaiser and Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen | Nov 4, 2020
Cash transfers: systematic review and meta-analysis Cash Transfers | Interventions We know that cash transfers reduce poverty, improve health and enhance education but what impact do they have on how people feel and think about their lives? We find that cash transfers...
