Explore our cost-effectiveness analysis of NEPI's innovative programme combining cash transfers and CBT to reduce crime in Liberia. With strong RCT evidence showing significant benefits to both recipients and the wider community, we estimate 22 WELLBYs per $1,000 donated. Read the report to learn how this promising intervention improves wellbeing and reduces criminality over the long term.
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The experiences we have as young children are widely recognized as having lasting impacts in later life. Supporting parents to engage with their children shows clear short-term developmental benefits and may have profound long-term effects on wellbeing, as well as health and achievement later in life.
This report evaluates icddr,b's Reach Up parenting programme. Download and read the report to explore the Happier Lives Institute’s cost-effectiveness analysis, measuring the programme’s impact on long-term wellbeing in WELLBYs.
There can be toxic levels of lead in all sorts of surprising products, including cosmetics. Lead exposure causes a global health burden comparable to malaria and HIV but receives less than 0.1% of their funding - even though malaria and HIV are themselves neglected diseases. Reducing lead exposure also seems feasible, given the strong historical success of advocacy campaigns. We evaluate Pure Earth’s program to reduce lead in cosmetics in Ghana, involving two years of advocacy and data collection followed by three years of enforcement support for a lead ban. We estimate it delivers 108 WELLBYs per $1,000 donated ($9.23 per WELLBY), making it the most cost-effective charity we have reviewed to-date. Optimistic assumptions increase this as high as 1,359 WELLBYs per $1,000 ($0.74 per WELLBY).
Globally, 45 million children suffer from malnutrition, leading to 2.3 million child deaths
annually. But even for those who live, the experience of malnutrition can have lifelong impacts on physical and cognitive health and social-emotional development. There is a consensus on how best to address extreme malnutrition: feeding kids a standard
formula of peanut butter enhanced with vitamins and nutrients alongside basic medical care to prevent or treat infections. This intervention, known as community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), saves lives and improves health and development. What this report seeks to find out is how effective it is at also improving happiness.
Iron deficiency may be a major contributing factor to mental illnesses such as depression. In this shallow exploration, we evaluate the cost-effectiveness of Fortify Health's work to address mass scale iron-deficiency anemia in India.​ Read the report to discover what effect adding a small amount of iron to wheat flour may have on happiness.
In this report, we provide an overview of all our evaluations to date as well as our conclusions for Giving Season 2023.