Good post, well done! Cost effectiveness analysis was done well. There are a couple things I’d like to see in the cost effectiveness that could further enhance the argument. First, I don’t have a good handle on the cost per DALY through well-known givewell interventions like AMF or the equivalent for direct giving, and it would be good to see that compared (comparison with other health variables might be helpful).
Second, if the sources are strictly measuring medical and health outcomes of reduced violence, the true magnitude of the benefit could actually be quite a bit more, because plausibly there are additional well-being benefits not captured by a pure medical analysis.
You have mentioned economic benefits in other parts of the report so I suppose it would be helpful to capture that in the analysis of specific cause areas too.
That said, cost per DALY of $52-78 sounds reasonably good at least?
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.
Hi Ben- thanks! I didn’t have the time to do a robust cost-effectiveness analysis of this intervention, and with low certainty, I didn’t feel comfortable making direct comparisons to AMF/other direct interventions. However, I think that an estimate roughly $50-80/DALY for purely health effects seems reasonable.
As mentioned in the text, I imagine the benefit-cost profile is multiplied by a factor of 2-5 if economic benefits are considered
Good post, well done! Cost effectiveness analysis was done well. There are a couple things I’d like to see in the cost effectiveness that could further enhance the argument. First, I don’t have a good handle on the cost per DALY through well-known givewell interventions like AMF or the equivalent for direct giving, and it would be good to see that compared (comparison with other health variables might be helpful).
Second, if the sources are strictly measuring medical and health outcomes of reduced violence, the true magnitude of the benefit could actually be quite a bit more, because plausibly there are additional well-being benefits not captured by a pure medical analysis.
You have mentioned economic benefits in other parts of the report so I suppose it would be helpful to capture that in the analysis of specific cause areas too.
That said, cost per DALY of $52-78 sounds reasonably good at least?
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.
Hi Ben- thanks! I didn’t have the time to do a robust cost-effectiveness analysis of this intervention, and with low certainty, I didn’t feel comfortable making direct comparisons to AMF/other direct interventions. However, I think that an estimate roughly $50-80/DALY for purely health effects seems reasonable.
As mentioned in the text, I imagine the benefit-cost profile is multiplied by a factor of 2-5 if economic benefits are considered