I’d like to see a more rigorous study exploring how these interventions affect career choice.
Related to that, I wonder if EA should do more research/​work to understand how to encourage better career change and choice. These are key to the success of EA and I am not sure they are as well researched as they should be. I am sure that lots of our organisations have good insights but I don’t know if there is much if any public experimental data.
If it is worth doing experiments to test interventions to promote volunteering, charity, diet change etc, then it seems even more valuable to understand how to promote ‘prosocial career choice or similar’. However, I am not aware of any research on this (though I haven’t looked for it specifically—I’d expect to have seen something by now given all the work I have done).
I suspect that part of the reason is that EA is the only group I know of who thinks about career choice as a key prosocial behaviour. Most researchers probably don’t even consider it. I wonder if it is a candidate for field-building(i.e., starting a new research field/​focus area)?
Thanks for this. Excellent work.
Some quick thoughts.
I’d like to see a more rigorous study exploring how these interventions affect career choice.
Related to that, I wonder if EA should do more research/​work to understand how to encourage better career change and choice. These are key to the success of EA and I am not sure they are as well researched as they should be. I am sure that lots of our organisations have good insights but I don’t know if there is much if any public experimental data.
If it is worth doing experiments to test interventions to promote volunteering, charity, diet change etc, then it seems even more valuable to understand how to promote ‘prosocial career choice or similar’. However, I am not aware of any research on this (though I haven’t looked for it specifically—I’d expect to have seen something by now given all the work I have done).
I suspect that part of the reason is that EA is the only group I know of who thinks about career choice as a key prosocial behaviour. Most researchers probably don’t even consider it. I wonder if it is a candidate for field-building(i.e., starting a new research field/​focus area)?
Thanks Peter!
I’d love to know more detail, if you’re happy to share.
Likewise. I did do some digging for this; see the intro of the full paper for the vaguely relevant research I did find.