I just want to flag that I’ve raised the issue of the inconsistencies in the use of discount rate (if by “the discount rate in the GBD data” you mean the 3% or 4% discount rate in the standard inputs table) in an email sent a few days ago to one of the CE employees. Unfortunately, we failed to have a productive discussion, as the conversation died quickly when CE stopped responding. Here is one of the emails I sent:
Hi [name],
I might be wrong but you are using 1.4% rate in the CEA but the value of life saved at various ages is copied from GiveWell standard inputs that uses 4% discount rate to calculate the value. Isn’t this an inconsistency?
I just want to flag that I’ve raised the issue of the inconsistencies in the use of discount rate (if by “the discount rate in the GBD data” you mean the 3% or 4% discount rate in the standard inputs table) in an email sent a few days ago to one of the CE employees. Unfortunately, we failed to have a productive discussion, as the conversation died quickly when CE stopped responding. Here is one of the emails I sent: