<div>What gives a life meaning? Is it about health, friends, family or something else? Do rich people have more meaningful lives than poor people? Do we find meaning in success or problems and failures too? During the Great Depression, the US Government Federal Writers’ Project dispatched a team of writers across the US with a simple brief: talk to people about their lives. The archive that they created, called American Life Histories, tells us what thousands of people across the US found meaningful in their lives. A new project uses artificial intelligence to discover what these documents reveal about the meaning of life. David Lagakos of Boston University, and Hans-Joachim Voth of the University of Zurich are two of the authors. They talk to Tim Phillips about what they discovered, and the message for those of us who seek meaning in our lives today. 

Read the Discussion Paper <a href="https://cepr.org/publications/dp19885">https://cepr.org/publications/dp19885</a>
American Life histories at the Library of Congress <a href="https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-writers-project/about-this-collection/">https://www.loc.gov/collections/federal-writers-project/about-this-collection/</a>
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