by Michael Plant | May 30, 2024
Site visit to Friendship Bench: Harare, Zimbabwe Download Report as PDF Reason for the visit In our prior research, we designated Friendship Bench (‘FB’) as a ‘promising’ charity: we think it may be as, or more, cost-effective than the other options we’ve examined so...
by Thomas Beuchot | Feb 6, 2024
Policies for wellbeing: A brief scoping review Download Report as PDF This is the summary of the report. Click the button above to read the pdf of the full report. Summary Thomas Beuchot (Ecole Normale Supérieure) was an HLI summer research fellow in 2022. His work...
by Michael Plant | Dec 21, 2023
Can I get a little less life satisfaction, please? Download Report as PDF This is the summary of the working paper. Click the button above to read the pdf of the full paper. Abstract Since Parfit (1984), philosophers have standardly held there are three theories of...
by Happier Lives Institute | Nov 28, 2023
HLI’s Giving Season 2023 Research Overview Summary At the Happier Lives Institute, we look for the most cost-effective interventions and organisations that improve subjective wellbeing, how people feel during and about their lives1We follow a three-stage process...
by Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret, Ryan Dwyer, Michael Plant and Maxwell Klapow | Nov 27, 2023
Talking through depression: The cost-effectiveness of psychotherapy in LMICs, revised and expanded Download Report as PDF November 2024: Update to our analysis We have made a substantial update to our psychotherapy report. This 83 page report (+ appendix) details new...
