I wonder how people in the EA community compare with people in general, notably controlling for income. I also wonder how much is given in the form of a reduced salary or volunteering, and how that compares to people in general.
I address this to some extent in the supplement to this year’s comparable post; see the dynamic document here, let it auto-scroll down to the relevant section.
The major takeaway:
B… Meer and Priday (2020) reports a roughly 1.6-2.1% percent share of income donated throughout all of the US income quantiles (except or the lowest 5%). The statistics below suggest that EAs who fill out the donation questions in the survey to donate a greater share of their income, perhaps at least twice as much.
Recall that the mean share of total (imputed) income donated (for 2019) was 9.44% (imputing income where below 5k or missing).
If we focus on US-resident nonstudents across all years, the mean share is 7.94%.
I wonder how people in the EA community compare with people in general, notably controlling for income. I also wonder how much is given in the form of a reduced salary or volunteering, and how that compares to people in general.
I address this to some extent in the supplement to this year’s comparable post; see the dynamic document here, let it auto-scroll down to the relevant section.
The major takeaway:
Recall that the mean share of total (imputed) income donated (for 2019) was 9.44% (imputing income where below 5k or missing).
If we focus on US-resident nonstudents across all years, the mean share is 7.94%.
awesome, thank you!
The SlateStarCodex survey data is useful to answer a limited form of that question (a comparison with other SSC-survey answerers).
Code here, in R, may be useful.
Thanks!