This is great to hear! I’m personally more excited by quality-of-life improvement interventions rather than saving lives so really grateful for this work.
Echoing kokotajlod’s question for GiveWell’s recommendations, do you have a sense of whether your recommendations change with a very high discount rate (e.g. 10%)? Looking at the graph of GiveDirectly vs StrongMinds it looks like the vast majority of benefits are in the first ~4 years
Minor note: the link at the top of the page is broken (I think the 11⁄23 in the URL needs to be changed to 11⁄24)
Do you mean a pure time discount rate, or something else?
I think a pure-time discount rate would actually boost the case for StrongMinds, right? Regarding cash vs therapy, the benefits from therapy happen more so at the start. Regarding saving lives vs improving lives, the benefit of a saved life presumably applies over the many extra years the person lives for.
This is great to hear! I’m personally more excited by quality-of-life improvement interventions rather than saving lives so really grateful for this work.
Echoing kokotajlod’s question for GiveWell’s recommendations, do you have a sense of whether your recommendations change with a very high discount rate (e.g. 10%)? Looking at the graph of GiveDirectly vs StrongMinds it looks like the vast majority of benefits are in the first ~4 years
Minor note: the link at the top of the page is broken (I think the 11⁄23 in the URL needs to be changed to 11⁄24)Do you mean a pure time discount rate, or something else?
I think a pure-time discount rate would actually boost the case for StrongMinds, right? Regarding cash vs therapy, the benefits from therapy happen more so at the start. Regarding saving lives vs improving lives, the benefit of a saved life presumably applies over the many extra years the person lives for.