Hello Blake,
There’s lots of questions to ask and answer here, but I will give some brief pointers on one aspect I think is important:
How do you think I should judge success? QALYs? How would I even judge QALY improvement?… In the end, I want to be able to say $5k to a family of 5 reduces suffering by a factor of X. I hope to compare these measures to EA giving opportunities.
This is a question about how to define and measure the ‘good’ that an action will do. Different charity and intervention evaluators have recently presented how they do so, here on the forum.
At the Happier Lives Institute—where I am a research analyst—we use subjective wellbeing / WELLBYs. This will capture ‘good’ better and broader than QALYs or other measures. See here for our case for the WELLBY. We’ve reviewed AMF, deworming, GiveDirectly, and StrongMinds using subjective wellbeing (see our 2022 recommendations here). We’ve even considered household spillovers for cash transfers and psychotherapy.
I think this measure, or at the very least ours and other works in subjective wellbeing, will be very relevant. I’m happy to chat more about this.
Hello Blake, There’s lots of questions to ask and answer here, but I will give some brief pointers on one aspect I think is important:
This is a question about how to define and measure the ‘good’ that an action will do. Different charity and intervention evaluators have recently presented how they do so, here on the forum.
At the Happier Lives Institute—where I am a research analyst—we use subjective wellbeing / WELLBYs. This will capture ‘good’ better and broader than QALYs or other measures. See here for our case for the WELLBY. We’ve reviewed AMF, deworming, GiveDirectly, and StrongMinds using subjective wellbeing (see our 2022 recommendations here). We’ve even considered household spillovers for cash transfers and psychotherapy.
I think this measure, or at the very least ours and other works in subjective wellbeing, will be very relevant. I’m happy to chat more about this.