GiveWell’s 2021 metrics report is out! Funding distributed to deworming increased greatly last year, from $15,699,622 to $44,124,942. Rerunning the model with the higher 2021 funding levels, the mean estimate of the value created by a replication study increases to approximately 370,000 GiveWell value units per year. This is equivalent to the value created by $18.5 million/year in donations to organizations with a cost-effectiveness of 6x GiveDirectly’s.
In general, as EA-related organizations distribute more money per year, the value of information is naturally going to rise. So this kind of replication work will only get more important.
GiveWell’s 2021 metrics report is out! Funding distributed to deworming increased greatly last year, from $15,699,622 to $44,124,942. Rerunning the model with the higher 2021 funding levels, the mean estimate of the value created by a replication study increases to approximately 370,000 GiveWell value units per year. This is equivalent to the value created by $18.5 million/year in donations to organizations with a cost-effectiveness of 6x GiveDirectly’s.
In general, as EA-related organizations distribute more money per year, the value of information is naturally going to rise. So this kind of replication work will only get more important.