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Response to GiveWell’s assessment of StrongMinds

  • Happier Lives Institute
  • Topics: GiveDirectly, Malaria, Mental Health, Methods & Research Agenda, Philosophy & Foundational Work, StrongMinds, Wellbeing and moral weights

Can we trust wellbeing surveys? A pilot study of comparability, linearity, and neutrality

  • Conrad Samuelsson, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant, Caspar Kaiser
  • Topics: Philosophy & Foundational Work, Wellbeing measurement

Immigration reform: a shallow cause exploration

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant, Ryan Dwyer
  • Topics: Immigration

Pain relief: a shallow cause exploration

  • Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Michael Plant, Ryan Dwyer
  • Topics: Pain

A can of worms: the non-significant effect of deworming on happiness

  • Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant
  • Topics: Deworming

The elephant in the bednet: the importance of philosophy when choosing between extending and improving lives

  • Michael Plant, Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret
  • Topics: Against Malaria Foundation, Malaria, Moral Uncertainty, Philosophy & Foundational Work, Poverty and Economic Growth, Wellbeing and moral weights

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

  • Joel McGuire, Michael Plant, Samuel Dupret
  • Topics: Deworming, GiveDirectly, Malaria

The property rights approach to moral uncertainty

  • Harry R. Lloyd
  • Topics: Moral Uncertainty, Philosophy & Foundational Work

To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Measuring non-health, non-pecuniary benefits using subjective wellbeing

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant
  • Topics: Methods & Research Agenda, Moral Uncertainty, Philosophy & Foundational Work, Wellbeing measurement

Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant
  • Topics: Deworming

A philosophical review of Open Philanthropy’s Cause Prioritisation Framework

  • Michael Plant
  • Topics: Moral Uncertainty, Philosophy & Foundational Work

Wheeling and dealing: An internal bargaining approach to moral uncertainty

  • Michael Plant
  • Topics: Moral Uncertainty, Philosophy & Foundational Work

Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies

  • Michael Plant
  • Topics: Poverty and Economic Growth

Happiness for the whole family

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant
  • Topics: GiveDirectly, Mental Health, Spillovers, StrongMinds

Affective forecasting

  • Matthew Coleman
  • Topics: Methods & Research Agenda, Policy, Wellbeing measurement

[Linkpost] A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of cash transfers on subjective well-being and mental health in low- and middle-income countries

  • Joel McGuire, Caspar Kaiser, Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen

Donating money, buying happiness

  • Joel McGuire, Michael Plant
  • Topics: GiveDirectly, Mental Health, Poverty and Economic Growth, StrongMinds

Psychotherapy: cost-effectiveness analysis

  • Joel McGuire
  • Topics: Mental Health, StrongMinds

StrongMinds: cost-effectiveness analysis

  • Joel McGuire
  • Topics: Mental Health, StrongMinds

Cash transfers: cost-effectiveness analysis

  • Joel McGuire, Michael Plant
  • Topics: GiveDirectly, Poverty and Economic Growth

Mental Health Programme Evaluation Project

  • Barry Grimes, Clare Donaldson
  • Topics: Friendship Bench, Mental Health, StrongMinds

Global priority: mental health

  • Caitlin Walker, Clare Donaldson, Michael Plant
  • Topics: Mental Health, StrongMinds

Research Agenda 2021-2022

  • Michael Plant, Clare Donaldson, Barry Grimes, Joel McGuire
  • Topics: Research Agenda

Cash transfers: systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Joel McGuire, Caspar Kaiser, Anders Malthe Bach-Mortensen
  • Topics: GiveDirectly, Poverty and Economic Growth

A Happy Possibility About Happiness (And Other) Scales

  • Michael Plant
  • Topics: Philosophy & Foundational Work, Wellbeing measurement

Global priority: pain

  • Sid Sharma, Clare Donaldson, Michael Plant
  • Topics: Pain

The philosophy of wellbeing

  • Fin Moorhouse, Michael Plant, Tom Houlden
  • Topics: Philosophy & Foundational Work

Estimating moral weights

  • Clare Donaldson, Joel McGuire, Michael Plant
  • Topics: Philosophy & Foundational Work, Wellbeing and moral weights

Life satisfaction and its discontents

  • Michael Plant
  • Topics: Philosophy & Foundational Work

Research Agenda 2019

  • Michael Plant
  • Topics: Research Agenda