There was some Givewell-commissioned research that did find that saving lives likely leads to future population increases. I imagine there’s a fair amount of uncertainty, but it seemed to be the best information available at the time I was looking into this a few years ago. I could dig it up if it’s of interest and difficult to find.
Yes there may be Givewell research saying that, but its still very unclear, and the mainstream public health view (for what its worth) has generally been that better healthcare and saving lives may well lead to lower fertility rates and lower populations in the medium/long term.
Are there any good research articles that do a decent job of isolating the role of reducing mortality rates? Review articles would be particularly useful.
It’s not clear that saving someone’s life causes a net increase in the population.
There was some Givewell-commissioned research that did find that saving lives likely leads to future population increases. I imagine there’s a fair amount of uncertainty, but it seemed to be the best information available at the time I was looking into this a few years ago. I could dig it up if it’s of interest and difficult to find.
Yes there may be Givewell research saying that, but its still very unclear, and the mainstream public health view (for what its worth) has generally been that better healthcare and saving lives may well lead to lower fertility rates and lower populations in the medium/long term.
Are there any good research articles that do a decent job of isolating the role of reducing mortality rates? Review articles would be particularly useful.
Here’s a link to the GiveWell-commissioned research that I have: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3635855 .