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Hap­pier Lives Institute

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The Happier Lives Institute (HLI) is an organization that researches the best ways to increase global wellbeing. This includes theoretical research on wellbeing measurement as well as practical research into effective interventions. HLI was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship.

Funding

As of July 2022, HLI has received $55,000 in funding from Effective Altruism Funds.[1][2]

Further reading

Cohen, Alex (2021) A conversation with the Happier Lives Institute, GiveWell, February 12.

Plant, Michael et al. (2021) 2021-22 Research agenda and context, Happier Lives Institute, April.

External links

Happier Lives Institute. Official website.

Apply for a job.

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    Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (2019) November 2019: EA Meta Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, November.

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    Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund (2020) July 2020: EA Meta Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, July.

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CaitlinWalkerMay 20, 2021, 11:20 AM
77 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

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JoelMcGuireNov 27, 2023, 11:08 PM
72 points
34 comments4 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

Conrad SMar 17, 2023, 10:17 AM
73 points
10 comments10 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

MichaelPlantNov 18, 2022, 12:09 PM
153 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

MichaelPlantOct 14, 2022, 1:36 PM
235 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

HLI’s 2023-4 re­search agenda

MichaelPlantJul 6, 2023, 12:02 PM
46 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

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

JoelMcGuireAug 11, 2022, 11:43 PM
110 points
28 comments13 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Assess­ment of Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute’s Cost-Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of StrongMinds

GiveWellMar 22, 2023, 5:04 PM
243 points
57 comments23 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

HLI’s Giv­ing Sea­son 2023 Re­search Overview

Happier Lives InstituteNov 28, 2023, 2:03 PM
53 points
4 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Hap­piness for the whole house­hold: ac­count­ing for house­hold spillovers when com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of psy­chother­apy to cash trans­fers

JoelMcGuireApr 14, 2022, 8:05 PM
51 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Eval­u­at­ing StrongMinds: how strong is the ev­i­dence?

JoelMcGuireJan 19, 2023, 12:12 AM
118 points
53 comments5 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlantJun 24, 2022, 12:29 PM
158 points
28 comments21 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlantJul 15, 2022, 8:21 AM
160 points
11 comments29 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute: 2021 An­nual Review

Barry GrimesApr 14, 2022, 7:55 PM
52 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

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

Samuel DupretDec 21, 2022, 1:10 PM
46 points
17 comments23 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

The Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute is fund­ing con­strained and needs you!

MichaelPlantJul 6, 2023, 12:00 PM
84 points
92 comments6 min readEA link

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JoelMcGuireNov 1, 2022, 2:25 AM
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

JoelMcGuireJul 25, 2022, 8:26 PM
307 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

2020 An­nual Re­view from the Hap­pier Lives Institute

ClareDonaldsonApr 26, 2021, 1:25 PM
85 points
10 comments19 min readEA link

Prob­lem area re­port: Pain

Sid SharmaNov 13, 2020, 7:26 PM
113 points
8 comments50 min readEA link

Lead ex­po­sure: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuireApr 11, 2023, 5:49 PM
71 points
1 comment32 min readEA link

The Bear­able Bright­ness of Wel­lbe­ing: The life of an HLI re­searcher

JoelMcGuireApr 8, 2022, 2:13 PM
56 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Donat­ing money, buy­ing hap­piness: new meta-analy­ses com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of cash trans­fers and psy­chother­apy in terms of sub­jec­tive well-being

MichaelPlantOct 25, 2021, 3:38 PM
153 points
46 comments18 min readEA link

Don’t just give well, give WELLBYs: HLI’s 2022 char­ity recommendation

MichaelPlantNov 24, 2022, 9:56 AM
165 points
50 comments9 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Affec­tive fore­cast­ing: The challenge of pre­dict­ing fu­ture feel­ings and the im­pli­ca­tions for global pri­ori­ties research

Matt Coleman🔹Feb 17, 2022, 8:36 PM
57 points
3 comments20 min readEA link

Floors and Ceilings, Frame­works and Feel­ings: SoGive’s Im­pact Anal­y­sis Toolkit for Eval­u­at­ing StrongMinds

ishaanApr 15, 2023, 9:41 AM
53 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to the Philos­o­phy of Well-Being

finmDec 7, 2020, 12:32 PM
45 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

The philos­o­phy of choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

JohnWMar 31, 2023, 11:44 PM
29 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

The Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Scales

MichaelPlantNov 30, 2020, 4:47 PM
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Life Satis­fac­tion and its Discontents

MichaelPlantSep 25, 2020, 7:54 AM
71 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

The effect of cash trans­fers on sub­jec­tive well-be­ing and men­tal health

JoelMcGuireNov 20, 2020, 6:12 PM
71 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Us­ing Sub­jec­tive Well-Be­ing to Es­ti­mate the Mo­ral Weights of Avert­ing Deaths and Re­duc­ing Poverty

MichaelPlantAug 3, 2020, 4:17 PM
98 points
8 comments35 min readEA link

The prop­erty rights ap­proach to moral uncertainty

Harry R. LloydOct 14, 2022, 4:49 PM
31 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

GWWC’s eval­u­a­tions of evaluators

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸Nov 22, 2023, 4:21 PM
222 points
42 comments6 min readEA link

Im­mi­gra­tion re­form: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuireFeb 20, 2023, 3:57 PM
104 points
7 comments36 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Can money buy hap­piness? A re­view of new data

JulianHazellJun 28, 2021, 1:48 AM
53 points
11 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

GiveWell’s up­dated es­ti­mate of de­worm­ing and decay

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46 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Learn­ing from our mis­takes: how HLI plans to improve

Peter BrietbartSep 1, 2023, 11:11 AM
355 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

The win­ners of the Change Our Mind Con­test—and some reflections

GiveWellDec 15, 2022, 7:33 PM
192 points
10 comments9 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

In­tern­ship Les­sons at the Hap­pier Lives Institute

Madhav MalhotraSep 1, 2022, 9:03 PM
20 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Pro­mot­ing com­pas­sion­ate longtermism

jonleightonDec 7, 2022, 2:26 PM
117 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Oper­a­tions Manager

Joy BittnerJan 26, 2022, 2:06 PM
144 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Up­date from the Hap­pier Lives Institute

ClareDonaldsonApr 30, 2020, 3:04 PM
83 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­ni­ties that sur­prised us dur­ing our Clearer Think­ing Re­grants program

spencergNov 7, 2022, 1:09 PM
116 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

Barry GrimesSep 20, 2022, 3:06 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Wheel­ing and deal­ing: An in­ter­nal bar­gain­ing ap­proach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlantJul 10, 2022, 12:04 PM
56 points
18 comments23 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘Differ­ences in Im­pact’

EA HandbookJul 3, 2022, 11:00 PM
18 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Notes on sup­port­ing Hap­pier Lives Institute

Pawel SysiakOct 6, 2022, 1:01 PM
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund Grants (Novem­ber 2020)

agdfosterDec 1, 2020, 12:11 PM
58 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Michael Plant: What are the best ways to im­prove world hap­piness?

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship: Grad­u­ate light­ning talks

EA GlobalJul 3, 2020, 2:48 PM
15 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

HLI Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

Joy BittnerFeb 21, 2022, 4:11 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of the Hap­pier Lives Institute

MichaelPlantJun 19, 2019, 3:40 PM
133 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

HLI’s Men­tal Health Pro­gramme Eval­u­a­tion Pro­ject—Up­date on the First Round of Evaluation

Jasper SynowskiJun 10, 2020, 4:45 PM
59 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Pain re­lief: a shal­low cause exploration

Samuel DupretJan 27, 2023, 9:55 AM
85 points
17 comments37 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Jasper Synowski and Clare Don­ald­son: Iden­ti­fy­ing the most cost-effec­tive pro­grammes to im­prove men­tal health

EA GlobalAug 21, 2020, 9:36 PM
15 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Why I’m suss on wellbe­ing surveys

Henry Howard🔸Mar 18, 2023, 7:07 AM
9 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Why I don’t agree with HLI’s es­ti­mate of house­hold spillovers from therapy

James Snowden🔸Feb 24, 2023, 6:18 PM
319 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Wel­lbe­ing al­ign­ment—pro­posal to The Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute with fo­cus on sys­temic changes

Michal PorwiszDec 29, 2023, 10:23 AM
24 points
4 comments4 min readEA link
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