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JoelMcGuire

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I am a researcher at the Happier Lives Institute. In my work, I assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions in terms of subjective wellbeing.

An in­va­sion of Taiwan is un­com­fortably likely, po­ten­tially catas­trophic, and we can help avoid it.

JoelMcGuire15 Jun 2025 19:46 UTC
179 points
34 comments27 min readEA link

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

JoelMcGuire27 Nov 2023 23:08 UTC
72 points
34 comments4 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

[Question] High im­pact char­i­ties in Gaza or Is­rael?

JoelMcGuire17 Oct 2023 0:37 UTC
69 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Has Rus­sia’s In­va­sion of Ukraine Changed Your Mind?

JoelMcGuire27 May 2023 18:35 UTC
61 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Lead ex­po­sure: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuire11 Apr 2023 17:49 UTC
71 points
1 comment32 min readEA link

Im­mi­gra­tion re­form: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuire20 Feb 2023 15:57 UTC
104 points
7 comments36 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Pain re­lief: a shal­low cause exploration

Samuel Dupret27 Jan 2023 9:55 UTC
85 points
17 comments37 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Eval­u­at­ing StrongMinds: how strong is the ev­i­dence?

JoelMcGuire19 Jan 2023 0:12 UTC
119 points
53 comments5 min readEA link

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

Samuel Dupret21 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC
46 points
17 comments23 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

MichaelPlant18 Nov 2022 12:09 UTC
155 points
43 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuire1 Nov 2022 2:25 UTC
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Find­ing be­fore fund­ing: Why EA should prob­a­bly in­vest more in research

Falk Lieder17 Aug 2022 8:48 UTC
103 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

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

JoelMcGuire11 Aug 2022 23:43 UTC
110 points
28 comments13 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC
308 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of sci­en­tific research

Falk Lieder16 Jul 2022 12:20 UTC
36 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

JoelMcGuire’s Quick takes

JoelMcGuire15 Jun 2022 4:08 UTC
4 points
6 commentsEA link

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

JoelMcGuire14 Apr 2022 20:05 UTC
51 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

JoelMcGuire8 Apr 2022 14:13 UTC
56 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

How big are the in­tra-house­hold spillovers for cash trans­fers and psy­chother­apy? Con­tribute your pre­dic­tion for our anal­y­sis.

JoelMcGuire8 Dec 2021 16:37 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 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

MichaelPlant25 Oct 2021 15:38 UTC
153 points
46 comments18 min readEA link