A can of worms: the non-significant effect of deworming on happiness Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Summary Mass deworming, where many people are provided drugs to treat parasitic worms, has long been considered a highly cost-effective intervention to...
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...
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...
Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Summary At the Happier Lives Institute, we have been replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis of deworming. GiveWell’s model assumes that...
Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies Progress Studies has been popularised by academics such as Tyler Cowen and Steven Pinker. However, the Easterlin Paradox presents a real challenge to the claim that...
