I have a very similar concern to Michael’s. In particular it looked like, to me, that participants picked for this were people with whom CEA had an existing relationship. For example picking from CEA’s donor base. This means that participants were those that had a very high opportunity cost in moving to direct work (as they were big donors). I expect that this is a suboptimal way of getting people to move into direct work.
Look forward to seeing:
something much more systematic to avoid the concerns you’ve raised and to avoid us being too biased in favor of our preexisting social networks
I have a very similar concern to Michael’s. In particular it looked like, to me, that participants picked for this were people with whom CEA had an existing relationship. For example picking from CEA’s donor base. This means that participants were those that had a very high opportunity cost in moving to direct work (as they were big donors). I expect that this is a suboptimal way of getting people to move into direct work.
Look forward to seeing: