I am not clear on if that number is meant to be interpreted in terms of years or just as a unitless “moral weight” for comparison purposes. I am hesitant to compare it with QALYs or other metrics without knowing the units.
Yes close enough—in reality it would be YLL + Other DALYs (suffering but not death caused by malaria) which would be equivalent to QALYs, but YLL would be close enough I think!
GiveWell’s spreadsheet says that the conventional value would be 37 based on discounting and age-weighting
I am not clear on if that number is meant to be interpreted in terms of years or just as a unitless “moral weight” for comparison purposes. I am hesitant to compare it with QALYs or other metrics without knowing the units.
The spreadsheet in the second link says YLL (years of life lost) which I think can be considered equivalent to QALYs in this case.
It’s also consistent with the comment on the 0.40 on the conventional value of increasing income in the first spreadsheet
Yes close enough—in reality it would be YLL + Other DALYs (suffering but not death caused by malaria) which would be equivalent to QALYs, but YLL would be close enough I think!
Thanks for finding that!