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The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of the Shamiri Institute

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant

2025 Giving Season Charities Update: ‘Tis the season to be giving

  • Happier Lives Institute

Baird et al. and StrongMinds FAQ: Why one study doesn’t overturn the case

  • Happier Lives Institute

2025 Mid-Year Charities Update: HLI’s first mid-year charities update and how we’re changing the way we keep donors informed

  • Happier Lives Institute

The Happier Lives Institute’s public response to The Unjournal’s evaluation of our psychotherapy report

  • Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Michael Plant

The promise of ACTRA: Preventing crime with cognitive behavioural therapy

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant

Research Agenda 2025

  • Happier Lives Institute

Stealing Happiness? The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of NEPI, preventing crime with cash and cognitive behavioural therapy

  • Joel McGuire, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

Does improving parenting practices in childhood lead to happier adults?

  • Joel McGuire, Ben Stewart, Samuel Dupret, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

Ironing out wellbeing: A shallow exploration into the wellbeing cost-effectiveness of fortifying wheat with iron

  • Joel McGuire, Ben Stewart, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

Does a well-fed infancy make for a more felicitous life? How treating malnutrition impacts happiness: a charity evaluation of Taimaka

  • Joel McGuire, Ben Stewart, Samuel Dupret, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of StrongMinds and Friendship Bench: Combining a systematic review and meta-analysis with charity-related data (Nov 2024 Update)

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant, Ben Stewart, Ryan Dwyer

Toxic Cosmetics: A shallow evaluation of Pure Earth advocacy against leaded cosmetics in Ghana

  • Ben Stewart, Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

Converting measures of mental health and wellbeing into WELLBYs

  • Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

August 2024 interim update to ‘Talking through depression: The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy in LMICs, revised and expanded’

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant, Ben Stewart

Celebrating Five Years of the Happier Lives Institute: Five Lessons We’ve Learned

  • Michael Plant

Site visit to Friendship Bench: Harare, Zimbabwe

  • Michael Plant

Site visit to StongMinds: Kampala, Uganda

  • Michael Plant

Policies for wellbeing: A brief scoping review

  • Thomas Beuchot

Can I get a little less life satisfaction, please?

  • Michael Plant

HLI’s Giving Season 2023 Research Overview

  • Happier Lives Institute

Talking through depression: The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy in LMICs, revised and expanded

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant, Maxwell Klapow

Research Agenda 2023-2024

  • Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

HLI’s work is discussed on the 80k podcast: Some comments

  • Michael Plant

Lead Exposure: a shallow cause exploration

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant, Ryan Dwyer

Response to GiveWell’s assessment of StrongMinds

  • Happier Lives Institute

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

  • Conrad Samuelsson, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant, Caspar Kaiser

Immigration reform: a shallow cause exploration

  • Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Michael Plant, Ryan Dwyer

Pain relief: a shallow cause exploration

  • Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Michael Plant, Ryan Dwyer

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

  • Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant

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