Hey Guy completely agree with you; I think that the ‘Worldview Investigations’ sub-section of this prize might be looking for this; from my perspective, something like this would be quite valuable.
It is much more worth the time to measure direct impact—how many people were prevented from falling ill. And indirect impacts—families who didn’t fall into poverty or economic hardship due to paying for treatment/lose of work earnings. Contributions in these areas imply an increase to well-being.
There are many areas that would be worth measuring well-being increases more explicitly though. Violence against women and girls is definitely one of them.
That’s true for lots of other interventions too. Has it been measured how much happier it makes parents when their children don’t get malaria?
Maybe we should get better at measuring these things :)
Hey Guy completely agree with you; I think that the ‘Worldview Investigations’ sub-section of this prize might be looking for this; from my perspective, something like this would be quite valuable.
It is much more worth the time to measure direct impact—how many people were prevented from falling ill. And indirect impacts—families who didn’t fall into poverty or economic hardship due to paying for treatment/lose of work earnings. Contributions in these areas imply an increase to well-being.
There are many areas that would be worth measuring well-being increases more explicitly though. Violence against women and girls is definitely one of them.