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The Effects of Psychotherapy on Subjective Well-Being
In total we're looking at over 80 studies, over 140,000 participants. These are kind of community health workers who've been trained and it's usually delivered as a group to make it more cost-effective. And so what we really care about is not how people feel immediately after the intervention. What we want to know is how long do those effects last? Do they last for many, many years or do they drop off quickly? The cash transfers have a smaller effect but it lasts longer kind of up to eight years. Whereas for the psychotherapy you get a really big initial effect but it tends to decay much quicker. So kind of by four years most of the effect is gone.