EA Global will bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. ...
Month: April 2022
EAGxBerlin 2022 will bring together ambitious students and professionals to learn, connect and collaborate to ...
EA Global will bring together a wide network of people who have made helping others a core part of their lives. ...
Sam and Joy participated in a fireside chat discussing their work on effective mental health and wellbeing.
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We discuss the progress we made in 2021, the lessons we've learned, and our plans for 2022.
See a list of our upcoming events as well as recordings of our talks at previous conferences, workshops, and seminars.
Our Summer Research Fellowship provides an opportunity for students and recent graduates to gain hands-on research experience and receive personal mentoring from our research team.
We are recruiting an Operations Manager who will ensure the organisation runs smoothly across a variety of domains including finance, charity compliance, charity registration, human resources, fundraising support, logistics, and the development of internal processes and policies. They will implement policies and procedures, focus on efficiency, and address organisational bottlenecks if and when they arise.
Our Summer Research Fellowship provides an opportunity for students and recent graduates to gain hands-on research experience and receive personal mentoring from our research team.
Learn more about our story so far, starting from Michael Plant's seminal talk at Effective Altruism Global in 2017.
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We strongly encourage our summer research fellows to work on one of the suggested topics listed on this page as we believe that making progress on these questions will be particularly impactful.
Our Summer Research Fellowship provides an opportunity for students and recent graduates to gain hands-on research experience and receive personal mentoring from our research team.
Let's work together to create a happier world. The Happier Lives Institute connects donors, researchers, and policymakers with the most cost-effective opportunities to increase global wellbeing. Using the latest subjective wellbeing data, we identify the problems that matter most to people and find evidence-based ways to solve them.
We update our previous analysis to incorporate the household spillover effects for cash transfers and psychotherapy. We estimate that psychotherapy is 9 times (95% CI: 2, 100) more cost-effective than cash transfers. The charity StrongMinds is estimated to be 9 times (95% CI: 1, 90) more cost-effective than the charity GiveDirectly.
Back after a three-year hiatus, EAGxBoston welcomes members of the effective altruism community to our 2022 ...
The progress studies community has had a lot of discussion about technology, economics, history, and politics. However, there is no consensus on the moral basis for valuing or pursuing “progress,” and there are key open questions about how progress is to be judged and measured, who should benefit from it, and what type of progress we should pursue. The goal of this workshop is to reach a consensus on what major moral/ethical questions are at the foundations of a study of progress, and what broad answers to these questions have been proposed.
Joel McGuire presented our comparison of the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers and psychotherapy in terms of ...
This hybrid workshop was held over two days at the University of Oxford to discuss topics covered in The Science ...
Panelists:
Joel McGuire, Research Analyst at Happier Lives Institute
Laura B. Rawlings, Lead ...
Joel McGuire presented our systematic review and meta-analysis on the impact of cash transfers on subjective ...
Michael Plant provides a brief overview of the main approaches to aggregating individual advantage - ...
Recordings from a two-day workshop on fundamental issues in the measurement of subjective wellbeing.
In several countries, lockdowns have reduced the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and thereby of deaths from ...
Even though mental disorders account for a considerable burden of disease globally and appear to strongly impact ...
Michael Plant presented his working paper on life satisfaction theories.
Michael Plant presented his working paper on the comparability of subjective scales.
Michael Plant delivered a ‘prequel’ to his talk at EA Global: London 2017 to address theoretical concerns about ...
All plausible moral theories agree increasing the happiness of currently existing people during their lifetimes is ...