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Cost-effec­tive­ness analysis

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Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a kind of economic analysis that allows comparison of the relative costs and effects of rival interventions. Unlike cost-benefit analysis, CEA does not express these effects in monetary values.

Further reading

Bhula, Radhika, Meghan Mahoney & Kyle Murphy (2020) Conducting cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, July.

Jamison, Dean T. et al. (eds.) (2006) Priorities in Health, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, ch. 3.

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cost-benefit analysis | cost-effectiveness | distribution of cost-effectiveness | intervention evaluation | ITN framework | cause priotization

List of ways in which cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­mates can be misleading

sauliusAug 20, 2019, 6:05 PM
235 points
37 comments13 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of stu­dent pro­grams for AI safety research

Center for AI SafetyJul 10, 2023, 5:23 PM
53 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

Five steps for quan­tify­ing spec­u­la­tive interventions

NunoSempereFeb 18, 2022, 8:39 PM
94 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of pro­fes­sional field-build­ing pro­grams for AI safety research

Center for AI SafetyJul 10, 2023, 5:26 PM
38 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate cam­paigns for chicken welfare are 10,000 times as effec­tive as GiveWell’s Max­i­mum Im­pact Fund?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 28, 2022, 8:22 AM
78 points
19 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] What is the state of the art in EA cost-effec­tive­ness mod­el­ling?

FroolowJun 4, 2022, 12:08 PM
26 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

U.S. Reg­u­la­tory Up­dates to Benefit-Cost Anal­y­sis: High­lights and En­courage­ment to Sub­mit Public Comments

DannyBresslerMay 18, 2023, 6:37 AM
79 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Data on how much solu­tions differ in effectiveness

Benjamin_ToddFeb 17, 2023, 8:22 PM
102 points
11 comments3 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] What has made you donate more to an­i­mal welfare and less to global health and de­vel­op­ment, or the other way around?

Vasco Grilo🔸Nov 24, 2024, 4:40 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

We should value in­come dou­blings equally across time and place (Founders Pledge)

NicoTJun 23, 2024, 9:38 AM
67 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

A crit­i­cal re­view of GiveWell’s 2022 cost-effec­tive­ness model

FroolowAug 25, 2022, 3:35 PM
227 points
20 comments38 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Cross-Cause Cost-Effec­tive­ness Model: In­tro­duc­tion and Overview

Derek ShillerNov 3, 2023, 12:26 PM
224 points
93 comments13 min readEA link

Pre­limi­nary Anal­y­sis of In­ter­ven­tion to Re­duce Lead Ex­po­sure from Adulter­ated Turmeric in Bangladesh Shows Cost Benefit of About US$1 per DALY

Kate PorterfieldAug 29, 2023, 7:32 AM
230 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

Fu­ture deaths from non-op­ti­mal tem­per­a­ture and cost-effec­tive­ness of strato­spheric aerosol injection

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 25, 2024, 4:50 PM
25 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Liberty in North Korea, quick cost-effec­tive­ness estimate

MichaelStJulesNov 3, 2021, 2:29 AM
94 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

How We Plan to Ap­proach Uncer­tainty in Our Cost-Effec­tive­ness Models

GiveWellJan 2, 2024, 9:09 PM
92 points
26 comments23 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

In­cor­po­rat­ing and vi­su­al­iz­ing un­cer­tainty in cost effec­tive­ness analy­ses: A walk­through us­ing GiveWell’s es­ti­mates for StrongMinds

Jamie ENov 7, 2023, 12:50 PM
70 points
6 comments16 min readEA link

The ITN frame­work, cost-effec­tive­ness, and cause prioritisation

John G. HalsteadOct 6, 2019, 5:26 AM
144 points
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Model­ing the im­pact of AI safety field-build­ing programs

Center for AI SafetyJul 10, 2023, 5:22 PM
83 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Pedant, a type checker for Cost Effec­tive­ness Analysis

SamNolanJan 2, 2022, 6:47 AM
99 points
19 comments11 min readEA link

CEA is fundrais­ing, and fund­ing constrained

Ben_West🔸Nov 20, 2023, 9:41 PM
58 points
40 comments8 min readEA link

Donat­ing money, buy­ing hap­piness: new meta-analy­ses com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of cash trans­fers and psy­chother­apy in terms of sub­jec­tive well-being

MichaelPlantOct 25, 2021, 3:38 PM
153 points
46 comments18 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness dis­tri­bu­tions, power laws and scale invariance

StijnMar 18, 2021, 7:27 PM
32 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tis­ing an­i­mal welfare over global health and de­vel­op­ment?

Vasco Grilo🔸May 13, 2023, 9:03 AM
112 points
50 comments18 min readEA link

GWWC’s 2020–2022 Im­pact eval­u­a­tion (ex­ec­u­tive sum­mary)

Michael Townsend🔸Mar 31, 2023, 7:34 AM
181 points
19 comments8 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Shap­ley val­ues: Bet­ter than counterfactuals

NunoSempereOct 10, 2019, 10:26 AM
152 points
54 comments15 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of try­ing some­thing new

Falk LiederApr 3, 2023, 12:29 PM
46 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Founders Pledge’s Cli­mate Change Fund might be more cost-effec­tive than GiveWell’s top char­i­ties, but it is much less cost-effec­tive than cor­po­rate cam­paigns for chicken welfare?

Vasco Grilo🔸May 5, 2024, 9:10 AM
60 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of fu­ture R&D pro­jects and aca­demic research

Falk LiederMay 8, 2023, 9:58 AM
23 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

In­ter­me­di­ate Re­port on Di­a­betes Mel­li­tus Type 2

Joel Tan🔸Apr 24, 2023, 7:11 AM
28 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Could Reg­u­la­tory Cost-Benefit Anal­y­sis Stop Fron­tier AI Reg­u­la­tions in the US?

LuiseJul 11, 2024, 3:25 PM
21 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

Ex­traor­di­nary cost-effec­tive­ness analy­ses call for sup­port­ing the­ory

Seth Ariel GreenJun 25, 2024, 1:36 PM
60 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Type Check­ing GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost Effec­tive Analysis

SamNolanJun 23, 2021, 6:35 AM
109 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

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SoGiveDec 1, 2022, 11:33 AM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­mote Health Cen­ters In Uganda—a cost effec­tive in­ter­ven­tion?

NickLaingFeb 27, 2023, 5:27 AM
131 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

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121 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
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118 points
7 comments20 min readEA link
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55 points
17 comments16 min readEA link

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aaron_maiOct 1, 2020, 10:22 AM
16 points
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Cost-effec­tive­ness of cor­po­rate cam­paigns for chicken welfare

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16 points
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Why Cost-Effec­tive­ness ≠ Effec­tive­ness/​Cost

Wes ReisenDec 17, 2023, 8:52 AM
0 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Should the Aravind Eye Care Sys­tem be funded in lieu of The Fred Hol­lows Foun­da­tion?

brb243Jan 11, 2022, 9:00 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

SoGive launches ex­panded ad­vis­ing and cus­tom re­search ser­vice: Feel more con­fi­dent in your giv­ing, across cause areas

Spencer R. Ericson 🔸Nov 9, 2023, 5:04 AM
37 points
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Meth­ods for im­prov­ing un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in EA cost-effec­tive­ness models

FroolowAug 29, 2022, 6:07 PM
127 points
8 comments37 min readEA link

Lo­cal char­ity eval­u­a­tion: Les­sons from the “Max­i­mum Im­pact” Pro­gram in Israel

Yonatan SchoenAug 27, 2023, 1:19 PM
110 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

How we work, #1: Cost-effec­tive­ness is gen­er­ally the most im­por­tant fac­tor in our recommendations

GiveWellOct 27, 2023, 9:40 PM
36 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
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Hayley ClatterbuckJul 10, 2024, 12:07 PM
73 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ity dis­tri­bu­tions of Cost-Effec­tive­ness can be misleading

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸Jul 18, 2022, 5:42 PM
70 points
49 comments1 min readEA link

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IngaDec 8, 2024, 2:32 PM
43 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Air Puri­fiers against Pollution

Lukas Trötzmüller🔸Jul 30, 2020, 8:37 AM
67 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

The win­ners of the Change Our Mind Con­test—and some reflections

GiveWellDec 15, 2022, 7:33 PM
192 points
10 comments9 min readEA link
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JoelMcGuireNov 1, 2022, 2:25 AM
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
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Ozzie GooenAug 3, 2022, 12:23 AM
147 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

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Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 14, 2022, 3:11 PM
36 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of RC Forward

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 May 20, 2019, 5:06 PM
68 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_HoursOct 8, 2021, 1:43 PM
41 points
2 comments149 min readEA link

An­i­mal Equal­ity showed that ad­vo­cat­ing for diet change works. But is it cost-effec­tive?

Peter WildefordJun 7, 2018, 4:06 AM
28 points
22 comments26 min readEA link

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Denkenberger🔸Nov 27, 2017, 2:23 AM
24 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Re­port on So­cial Re­turns to Pro­duc­tivity Growth

Tom_DavidsonJul 15, 2022, 10:31 PM
55 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Cor­po­rate cam­paigns af­fect 9 to 120 years of chicken life per dol­lar spent

sauliusJul 8, 2019, 8:01 AM
176 points
27 comments59 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of send­ing per­sonal messages

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 29, 2022, 2:38 PM
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The ex­treme cost-effec­tive­ness of cell-based meat R&D

StijnAug 10, 2020, 2:00 PM
37 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Fam­ily Plan­ning: A Sig­nifi­cant Op­por­tu­nity for Impact

Sarah Eustis-GuthrieAug 12, 2022, 12:01 AM
99 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Change Our Mind Con­test for cri­tiques of our cost-effec­tive­ness analyses

GiveWellSep 6, 2022, 6:10 PM
142 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

On the ro­bust­ness of cost-effec­tive­ness estimates

William_MacAskillMay 24, 2013, 4:00 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

In­ter­me­di­ate Re­port on Low Phys­i­cal Activity

Joel Tan🔸Jan 24, 2024, 2:50 AM
31 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

The value of money go­ing to differ­ent groups

Toby_OrdMay 16, 2017, 1:11 PM
22 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Flood­ing is not a promis­ing cause area—shal­low investigation

OscarD🔸Dec 21, 2022, 10:57 AM
65 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

Philan­thropic util­i­tar­ian algorithm

Richard BaxterAug 16, 2022, 5:07 AM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AGI safety and los­ing elec­tric­ity/​in­dus­try re­silience cost-effectiveness

Ross_TiemanNov 17, 2019, 8:42 AM
31 points
10 comments37 min readEA link

The elephant in the bed­net: the im­por­tance of philos­o­phy when choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

MichaelPlantNov 18, 2022, 12:09 PM
153 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Millions in cash trans­fers, with­out spend­ing a penny

Karthik TadepalliOct 26, 2022, 8:03 PM
18 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Changes to our top char­ity crite­ria, and a new giv­ing option

GiveWellAug 17, 2022, 7:30 PM
99 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Foods for Global Catas­tro­phes: Even Bet­ter than Be­fore?

Denkenberger🔸Nov 19, 2018, 9:57 PM
29 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

Why An­ima In­ter­na­tional sus­pended the cam­paign to end live fish sales in Poland

Jakub StencelDec 30, 2022, 5:47 PM
356 points
24 comments14 min readEA link
(animainternational.org)

Re­duc­ing the neart­erm risk of hu­man ex­tinc­tion is not as­tro­nom­i­cally cost-effec­tive?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 9, 2024, 8:02 AM
20 points
37 comments8 min readEA link

What you can do to help stop vi­o­lence against women and girls

AkhilJan 12, 2023, 11:51 AM
333 points
24 comments16 min readEA link

Shal­low Re­port on Ac­cess to Men­tal Health Drugs

Joel Tan🔸Nov 22, 2022, 2:27 AM
37 points
8 comments18 min readEA link

Find­ing bugs in GiveWell’s top charities

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 23, 2023, 4:49 PM
47 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal’s 1st eval is up: Re­silient foods pa­per (Denken­berger et al) & AMA ~48 hours

david_reinsteinFeb 6, 2023, 7:18 PM
77 points
10 comments3 min readEA link
(sciety.org)

1/​E(X) is not E(1/​X)

EdoAradNov 9, 2023, 10:22 AM
55 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Ev­i­dence of effec­tive­ness and trans­parency of a few effec­tive giv­ing organisations

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 1, 2023, 8:10 AM
60 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

A sim­plified cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­ma­tion method­ol­ogy for use in So­lar4Africa’s Fall-23 stu­dent projects

Robert Van BuskirkNov 1, 2023, 9:02 PM
12 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

How do EA Orgs Ac­count for Uncer­tainty in their Anal­y­sis?

Peter WildefordApr 5, 2017, 4:48 PM
17 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

(How) Is tech­ni­cal AI Safety re­search be­ing eval­u­ated?

JohnSnowJul 11, 2023, 9:37 AM
27 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Deep Re­port on Diabetes

Joel Tan🔸Oct 6, 2023, 2:33 AM
26 points
39 comments4 min readEA link

Malaria bed­net and medicine overlap

MichaelStJulesSep 5, 2023, 11:55 PM
24 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Health AIM: A map­ping tool helping Health providers reach re­mote ru­ral areas

Emmanuel OcholaAug 17, 2023, 1:44 PM
50 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Are EA-al­igned eval­u­a­tors aware of 3ie’s ‘Devel­op­ment Ev­i­dence Por­tal’ and re­views of ev­i­dence?

david_reinsteinAug 17, 2023, 10:04 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

My im­pact as­sess­ment of Giv­ing What We Can

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 15, 2023, 6:59 AM
40 points
33 comments9 min readEA link

GiveWell’s up­dated es­ti­mate of de­worm­ing and decay

GiveWellApr 3, 2023, 9:07 PM
46 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject #4 - Gen­eral In­ter­ven­tion Refine­ment and Cost-Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of So­lar Elec­tric Cook­ing Sys­tems: Pro­ject Overview and Methodology

shanemurrayDec 1, 2023, 10:35 AM
11 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

How much do you be­lieve your re­sults?

Eric NeymanMay 5, 2023, 7:51 PM
211 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

What is the cost-effec­tive­ness of re­search­ing vac­cines?

Peter WildefordMay 8, 2018, 7:41 AM
17 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of pre­vi­ous R&D projects

Falk LiederApr 24, 2023, 9:48 AM
25 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Maybe Fam­ily Plan­ning Char­i­ties Are Bet­ter For Farmed An­i­mals Than An­i­mal Welfare Ones

Hank_BMay 6, 2023, 2:02 AM
97 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s re­search into large-scale global health interventions

CEMay 16, 2023, 11:51 AM
77 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Pro­posed - ‘How Much Does It Cost to Save a Life?’ Quiz, calcu­la­tor, tool

david_reinsteinMay 12, 2023, 9:01 PM
39 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Vac­cines: Ap­pen­dices and Endnotes

Peter WildefordMay 8, 2018, 7:43 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject 3: So­lar pumps for in­come gen­er­a­tion–Pro­ject overview and methodology

Joshua ChoiNov 19, 2023, 2:07 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Fam­ily Em­pow­er­ment Me­dia: track record, cost-effec­tive­ness, and main uncertainties

Rethink PrioritiesJun 12, 2023, 9:36 AM
98 points
17 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

[Question] Which or­gani­sa­tion is most effec­tive for the the marginal $ right now? (your opinions)

Nathan YoungAug 26, 2023, 11:03 AM
31 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Two Big-Pic­ture Cri­tiques of GiveWell’s Ap­proach, and Six Les­sons from Their Re­cent Work (Elie Hassen­feld on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJun 5, 2023, 1:51 PM
52 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Linkpost: “Bet­ter vaguely right than pre­cisely wrong in effec­tive al­tru­ism: the prob­lem of marginal­ism”

Joseph LemienAug 10, 2023, 6:47 PM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

Best free we­bi­nars /​ videos for stu­dents to learn to con­duct cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis?

freedomandutilityDec 3, 2023, 12:04 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Can we help in­di­vi­d­ual peo­ple cost-effec­tively? Our trial with three sick kids

NickLaingFeb 20, 2024, 9:43 AM
396 points
35 comments10 min readEA link

Fat Tails Dis­cour­age Compromise

niplavJun 17, 2024, 9:39 AM
31 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

GWWC’s Giv­ing Multiplier

Joel Tan🔸Sep 3, 2024, 4:59 AM
117 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Sav­ing lives in nor­mal times is bet­ter to im­prove the longterm fu­ture than do­ing so in catas­tro­phes?

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 20, 2024, 8:37 AM
13 points
25 comments9 min readEA link

Are our Top Char­i­ties sav­ing the same lives each year?

GiveWellJun 18, 2024, 3:47 PM
165 points
7 comments33 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

[Question] Has any­one tried to roughly quan­tify how many an­i­mal lives can be saved per dol­lar donated?

Luke EureDec 16, 2023, 5:24 AM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analy­ses, when should we take the Ex­pected Value?

EdoAradMar 13, 2024, 2:49 PM
15 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Open Ques­tions in Cost-Effec­tive­ness Modeling

EdoAradMar 13, 2024, 2:52 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Linkpost: Prospec­tive cost-effec­tive­ness of farmed fish stun­ning cor­po­rate com­mit­ments in Europe

Sagar K ShahMar 15, 2024, 3:06 PM
74 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Ad­vo­cacy for egg re­place­ment solutions

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 15, 2024, 9:05 AM
32 points
2 comments29 min readEA link

Ex­pected value and un­cer­tainty with­out full Monte Carlo simulations

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 5, 2024, 8:57 AM
12 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Malaria vac­cines: how con­fi­dent are we?

SanjayJan 5, 2024, 12:59 AM
62 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of epi­demic/​pan­demic preparedness

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 30, 2024, 1:37 PM
32 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of Shrimp Welfare Pro­ject’s Hu­mane Slaugh­ter Initiative

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 6, 2024, 8:25 AM
66 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

Am­bi­tious Im­pact’s cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­mates sug­gest the best in­ter­ven­tions in an­i­mal welfare are much more cost-effec­tive than the best in global health and de­vel­op­ment?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 11, 2024, 4:32 PM
25 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Three Rea­sons Early De­tec­tion In­ter­ven­tions Are Not Ob­vi­ously Cost-Effective

Conrad K.Apr 21, 2024, 9:05 PM
64 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Re­silience to Nu­clear & Vol­canic Winter

Stan PinsentJul 9, 2024, 10:39 AM
96 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of buy­ing or­ganic in­stead of barn eggs

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 14, 2024, 4:29 PM
23 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Policy ad­vo­cacy for erad­i­cat­ing screw­worm looks re­mark­ably cost-effective

MathiasKB🔸May 20, 2024, 2:23 PM
203 points
23 comments8 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of School Plates

Vasco Grilo🔸May 25, 2024, 9:01 AM
33 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of re­stricted donations

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 3, 2024, 9:36 AM
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis of Lafiya Nige­ria intervention

Rethink PrioritiesOct 23, 2024, 10:41 PM
99 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

For­mal­iz­ing the cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion framework

Michael_WiebeNov 5, 2019, 6:09 PM
50 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

GWWC’s 2024 eval­u­a­tions of evaluators

Giving What We CanNov 27, 2024, 8:44 AM
167 points
38 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Cost effec­tive­ness of Longter­mist in­ter­ven­tions

KaleemDec 5, 2024, 1:51 PM
28 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

What I thought about child mar­riage as a cause area, and how I’ve changed my mind

Catherine FJan 31, 2023, 7:50 PM
218 points
44 comments7 min readEA link

“Direct cash looks 3-4x more cost-effec­tive in a new GiveWell as­sess­ment”

defun 🔸Nov 12, 2024, 5:05 PM
101 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

[Linkpost] Claim that US can­cer re­search is com­pa­rable to Givewell top char­i­ties in DALYs per $

Jalen_Lyle-HolmesFeb 9, 2023, 8:50 PM
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(ascopubs.org)

Shal­low Re­port on Coronary Heart Disease

Joel Tan🔸Feb 20, 2023, 4:49 AM
26 points
11 comments18 min readEA link

Shal­low Re­port on Nu­clear War (Arse­nal Limi­ta­tion)

Joel Tan🔸Feb 21, 2023, 4:57 AM
44 points
13 comments29 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism and global pal­li­a­tive care: One pro­ject case

Phil Di SorboDec 21, 2022, 5:58 AM
2 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Giv­ing Green team re­flects on 2022 cli­mate giv­ing research

Giving GreenMar 16, 2023, 2:39 PM
30 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Cost Effec­tive­ness of Cul­ti­vated Meat

El_Momento_De_BruhSep 16, 2024, 9:07 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cli­mate Giv­ing as an Individual

NickLutskoNov 18, 2024, 11:18 AM
8 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Re­fus­ing to Quan­tify is Re­fus­ing to Think (about trade-offs)

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 18, 2024, 6:03 PM
57 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Is Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Miti­ga­tion Uniquely Cost-Effec­tive? Not in Stan­dard Pop­u­la­tion Models (Gus­tav Alexan­drie and Maya Eden)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 4, 2023, 1:28 PM
33 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

In­ter­me­di­ate Re­port on Abrupt Sun­light Re­duc­tion Scenarios

Stan PinsentOct 20, 2023, 9:15 AM
31 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

An up­date on GiveWell’s fund­ing projections

GiveWellJul 5, 2022, 9:56 PM
140 points
15 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

How Many Lives Does X-Risk Work Save From Nonex­is­tence On Aver­age?

Jordan ArelDec 8, 2022, 9:44 PM
34 points
12 comments14 min readEA link

How we work, #3: Our analy­ses in­volve judg­ment calls

GiveWellDec 6, 2023, 10:09 PM
32 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Elec­tric Shrimp Stun­ning: a Po­ten­tial High-Im­pact Dona­tion Opportunity

MHR🔸Jul 13, 2023, 12:39 AM
155 points
22 comments10 min readEA link

Adquira sen­ti­men­tos calorosos e útilons separadamente

AE Brasil / EA BrazilJul 20, 2023, 6:48 PM
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

FIX IT GENTLY

RosenhanMay 6, 2024, 9:05 AM
−5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A sys­tem­atic frame­work for as­sess­ing dis­counts [Founders Pledge]

Rosie_BettleAug 16, 2023, 10:49 AM
83 points
5 comments26 min readEA link

[Squig­gle Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion Challenge] CEA LEEP Malawi

Dan WahlSep 1, 2022, 5:13 AM
23 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(danwahl.net)

Thresh­olds #1: What does good look like for longter­mism?

Spencer R. Ericson 🔸Jul 25, 2023, 7:17 PM
45 points
36 comments8 min readEA link

The value of cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis (David Thorstad)

smountjoyJul 29, 2023, 10:54 PM
20 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

The Case For Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Project

OmnizoidNov 15, 2024, 4:02 PM
62 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

Deep Re­port on Hypertension

Joel Tan🔸Aug 1, 2023, 2:39 AM
67 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuireJul 25, 2022, 8:26 PM
307 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

[Question] Are there cost-effec­tive­ness analy­ses for per­sonal in­ter­ven­tions, as op­posed to or­ga­ni­za­tion-wide poli­cies?

BrianAug 20, 2023, 5:06 PM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject 5: Off-grid So­lar For­ever Lights & Bat­ter­ies — Pro­ject Overview and Methodology

Robin SharifNov 12, 2023, 1:06 AM
11 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Com­par­ing cost-effec­tive­ness of in­vest­ment in pub­lic trans­port in Lon­don vs out of Lon­don for re­duc­ing car­bon emissions

pratyusha_Sep 9, 2024, 12:19 PM
9 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

How to de­ter­mine dis­tri­bu­tion pa­ram­e­ters from quantiles

Vasco Grilo🔸May 30, 2022, 3:20 PM
23 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Com­par­ing Health In­ter­ven­tions in Colom­bia and Nige­ria: Which are More Effec­tive and by How Much?

Alejandro AcelasMar 24, 2023, 1:48 PM
49 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Erad­i­cat­ing ro­den­ti­cides from U.S. pest man­age­ment is less prac­ti­cal than we thought

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Mar 24, 2023, 9:11 PM
78 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(osf.io)

Self-guided men­tal health apps aren’t cost-effec­tive… yet

huwFeb 8, 2024, 4:45 AM
28 points
7 comments11 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

Shal­low In­ves­ti­ga­tion: Bac­te­rial Meningitis

peetyxkMar 28, 2023, 8:57 AM
39 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

動物を助けたいなら、他人の食事よりも企業に注意を向けよう。

EA JapanAug 4, 2023, 12:42 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Over­come: Growth and Marginal Cost-Effec­tive­ness Data

John SalterNov 18, 2024, 11:20 AM
44 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Launch­ing 60,000,000,000 Chick­ens: A Give Well-Style CEA Spread­sheet for An­i­mal Welfare

AppliedDivinityStudiesJun 4, 2021, 9:08 PM
35 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Marginal Aid and Effec­tive Altruism

TomDrakeMar 30, 2023, 8:31 PM
39 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Mor­tal­ity Cost of Taxation

Richard BrunsSep 9, 2024, 7:27 PM
1 point
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Altre let­ture su ‘Differenze di Im­patto’

EA ItalyDec 31, 2022, 3:57 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

More EAs are work­ing on vi­o­lence against women—Here’s why

I.J.J.Dec 10, 2024, 12:58 PM
14 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Planned Up­dates to U.S. Reg­u­la­tory Anal­y­sis Meth­ods are Likely Rele­vant to EAs

MHR🔸Apr 7, 2023, 12:36 AM
163 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Chil­dren in Low-In­come Countries

Daniel BirnbaumDec 12, 2024, 5:45 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Paid Con­sult­ing Pro­ject] Look­ing for Health Economists & Epidemiologists

Joel Tan🔸Apr 5, 2023, 12:22 PM
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Net zero is im­pos­si­ble—for now. Giv­ing Green pro­poses 4 higher-im­pact al­ter­na­tives for businesses

Giving GreenApr 4, 2023, 7:29 PM
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

On Es­ti­mates of how much Zakat there is

KaleemJun 10, 2024, 5:23 PM
68 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

In­ter­me­di­ate Re­port on Hypertension

Joel Tan🔸Apr 3, 2023, 3:54 AM
50 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of de­ploy­ing a new intervention

Falk LiederApr 10, 2023, 9:07 AM
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

End­ing TB in In­dia by 2025? Policy Dis­cus­sion Paper for Comment

Tom DelaneyMay 29, 2024, 12:04 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Con­trails: an un­der­rated cli­mate miti­ga­tion op­por­tu­nity?

JuanGarciaDec 16, 2024, 7:15 PM
14 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Zzap­pMalaria: Twice as cost-effec­tive as bed nets in ur­ban areas

Arnon Houri YafinApr 16, 2023, 7:12 PM
75 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Sup­port­ing grass­roots effec­tively: You can give to the most effec­tive char­ity in your com­mu­nity, even if none of them have “data”

Spencer R. Ericson 🔸Aug 20, 2023, 5:30 PM
39 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Un­rav­el­ling the Mys­tery of Distri­bu­tions of Im­pact: Power law or Log­nor­mal?

MichaelApr 22, 2023, 9:40 AM
30 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors Is Seek­ing In­ter­ven­tion Effec­tive­ness Re­search and Cost-Effec­tive­ness Estimates

Animal Charity EvaluatorsApr 21, 2023, 12:49 PM
51 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

TanaeNov 1, 2022, 4:51 AM
37 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Does boy­cotting work?

dstudioscodeJan 22, 2024, 3:39 AM
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Does any­one have up to date es­ti­mates on the most effec­tive char­i­ties helping chick­ens?

OmnizoidDec 12, 2024, 7:57 PM
39 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Me­taS­cience Sym­po­sium on Iden­ti­fy­ing Im­pact­ful Re­search Topics

Falk LiederMay 2, 2023, 6:41 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(metascience.info)

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject #4 - Gen­eral In­ter­ven­tion Refine­ment and Cost-Effec­tive­ness (CE) Anal­y­sis of So­lar Elec­tric Cook­ing Sys­tems: Fi­nal Anal­y­sis and Jus­tifi­ca­tion of Intervention

Robert Van BuskirkJan 20, 2024, 5:46 AM
10 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis of ~1260 USD worth of so­cial me­dia ads for fel­low­ship marketing

gergoJan 25, 2024, 3:18 PM
61 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Against cash bench­mark­ing for global de­vel­op­ment RCTs

Rory FentonMar 21, 2022, 12:29 AM
116 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of donat­ing a kidney

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 23, 2022, 9:50 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Em­pow­er­ing Num­bers: FEM since 2021

hhartAug 23, 2023, 11:48 AM
234 points
23 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] What are some re­spon­si­bil­ity bun­dle bar­gains for medium-sized en­ter­prises?

brb243Jan 10, 2022, 7:38 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive­ness of Giv­ing Blood

ATinyFishOct 26, 2022, 6:08 AM
23 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Why EA needs Oper­a­tions Re­search: the sci­ence of de­ci­sion making

wesgJul 21, 2022, 12:47 AM
76 points
22 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] What is the cost-effec­tive­ness of GiveWell’s top life-sav­ing char­i­ties un­der to­tal util­i­tar­i­anism?

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 22, 2022, 5:22 PM
14 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How do in­spired con­tri­bu­tions and ex­ter­nal­ized costs fac­tor in cost-effec­tive­ness calcu­la­tions?

VictorWAug 8, 2023, 9:43 PM
12 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Global In­no­va­tion Fund pro­jects its im­pact to be 3x GiveWell Top Charities

jhJun 1, 2023, 1:00 PM
71 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Eval­u­a­tion re­port: Max­i­mum Im­pact Pilot 2023

Yonatan SchoenSep 19, 2023, 3:25 PM
26 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Epistemic and Statis­ti­cal Uncer­tainty in CEAs—Draft

EdoAradOct 30, 2023, 10:26 AM
27 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

doebem: Char­ity Eval­u­a­tion and Effec­tive Giv­ing in Brazil

Bruno SterenbergOct 30, 2023, 4:14 PM
61 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

How economists got Africa’s AIDS epi­demic wrong

Justin SandefurJun 10, 2023, 5:25 AM
263 points
26 comments8 min readEA link

Marginal Fund­ing Week, So­lar pumps in Malawi: Creat­ing ~$20 of in­come per $1 of dona­tion for ~$1/​cap­ita/​year beneficiaries

Robert Van BuskirkNov 20, 2023, 3:59 PM
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Sim­ple Tips for Sound Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

James BroughelNov 1, 2022, 12:53 AM
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] How to think about cost-effec­tive­ness when the US gov­ern­ment is pay­ing?

DirectedEvolutionJun 15, 2023, 2:52 AM
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plain­ing the dis­crep­an­cies in cost effec­tive­ness rat­ings: A repli­ca­tion and break­down of RP’s an­i­mal welfare cost effec­tive­ness calcu­la­tions

titotalOct 14, 2024, 11:34 AM
149 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Re­search I’d like to see

Alex CohenDec 17, 2024, 2:08 PM
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How much does it cur­rently cost to pre­vent one per­son from be­com­ing blind?

Finn ThomasAug 13, 2023, 10:18 AM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

New cause area: train­ing health work­ers to pre­vent new­born deaths

MarshallJun 20, 2022, 5:12 PM
65 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

Can Black Soldier Fly Lar­vae (BSFL) pro­duc­ers dis­place fish­meal?

Rethink PrioritiesDec 17, 2024, 3:59 PM
31 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Feed­back of a CEA?

Iska KnuuttilaJan 18, 2024, 3:19 PM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

A Pa­tient’s Per­spec­tive of Mea­sur­ing Health Outcomes

quinngraceNov 28, 2024, 8:46 PM
18 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Why is it so hard to know if you’re helping?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 16, 2024, 4:08 PM
59 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

Quan­tify­ing an­i­mal suffer­ing and the im­pact of in­ter­ven­tions us­ing the Welfare Foot­print Framework

Wladimir J. AlonsoOct 17, 2024, 1:39 PM
52 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Ad­ding Quan­tified Uncer­tainty to GiveWell’s Cost Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of the Against Malaria Foundation

TanaeAug 31, 2022, 12:53 PM
31 points
10 comments3 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

Farmed an­i­mals may have pos­i­tive lives now or in a few decades?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 26, 2024, 9:18 AM
24 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of mak­ing a video game with EA concepts

mmKALLLSep 15, 2022, 1:48 PM
8 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Abun­dance Es­ti­mates of Three Wild Populations

Rethink PrioritiesOct 28, 2024, 8:26 PM
61 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Re­plac­ing chicken meat with beef or pork is bet­ter than the reverse

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 4, 2024, 5:38 PM
48 points
17 comments4 min readEA link
(www.onestepforanimals.org)

[Question] How to se­lect un­con­di­tional cash trans­fer benefi­cia­ries to max­i­mize cost-effec­tive­ness (and what in­sti­tu­tional changes can solve re­cip­i­ents’ is­sues)?

brb243Jan 7, 2022, 10:52 PM
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Tree plant­ing cost-effectiveness

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 3, 2022, 9:20 AM
49 points
14 comments46 min readEA link

A New Top Dona­tion Op­por­tu­nity in Brazil: Save a Life for USD 12.5k

Luan PacienciaNov 1, 2024, 9:29 PM
45 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Case for Fund­ing New Long-Term Ran­dom­ized Con­trol­led Tri­als of Deworming

MHR🔸Aug 4, 2022, 4:12 PM
95 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Global Bur­den of Ex­treme Pain from Cluster Headaches

Alfredo Parra 🔸Nov 1, 2024, 8:35 PM
189 points
20 comments27 min readEA link

In­vest­ing for a cause

brb243Aug 12, 2022, 1:35 AM
5 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Is there some­thing like GiveWell for gov­ern­ment pro­grams?

aoreidmarrDec 20, 2021, 10:25 PM
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Sign of qual­ity of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb243Oct 16, 2022, 2:54 PM
57 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

An­swer­ing some ques­tions about wa­ter qual­ity programs

GiveWellOct 14, 2022, 8:36 PM
26 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Es­ti­mat­ing the im­pact of com­mu­nity build­ing work

10xRationalDec 1, 2022, 11:42 PM
41 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

How cost-effec­tive is the new R21 vac­cine com­pared to ex­ist­ing malaria in­ter­ven­tions?

Dane ValerieJul 18, 2024, 8:33 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.1daysooner.org)

Re­view of Givewell’s Cost-effec­tive­ness for Sea­sonal Malaria Chemoprevention

FinngoeslongSep 25, 2022, 1:59 PM
20 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

A can of worms: the non-sig­nifi­cant effect of de­worm­ing on hap­piness in the KLPS

Samuel DupretDec 21, 2022, 1:10 PM
46 points
17 comments23 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Cost-effec­tive­ness of iron for­tifi­ca­tion in In­dia is lower than GiveWell’s estimates

Akash KulgodSep 30, 2022, 12:50 PM
28 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Liveli­hood in­ter­ven­tions: overview, eval­u­a­tion, and cost-effectiveness

Rethink PrioritiesJan 20, 2023, 8:05 PM
90 points
8 comments45 min readEA link

New in­ter­ven­tion: pay­ing farm­ers to not burn crops

Karthik TadepalliDec 22, 2022, 5:18 PM
88 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

AMF net use may be over­es­ti­mated by about 10 per­centage points

brb243Oct 10, 2022, 11:05 PM
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Rough at­tempt to pro­file char­i­ties which sup­port Ukrainian war re­lief in terms of their cost-effec­tive­ness.

MichaelFeb 27, 2022, 12:51 AM
29 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Is the $1–20/​life saved by a pneu­mo­coc­cus vac­cine still available? At what scale?

brb243Jan 11, 2022, 9:01 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘Differ­ences in Im­pact’

EA HandbookJul 3, 2022, 11:00 PM
17 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Fau­n­a­lyt­ics’ Fund­ing Gap of $385,000

JLRiediNov 11, 2024, 8:28 PM
24 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Carlo: un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in Google Sheets

ProbabilityEnjoyerMar 18, 2024, 1:06 PM
42 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(carlo.app)

[Question] How should oth­ers’ dona­tions be ac­counted for in cost-effec­tive­ness analy­ses?

brb243Aug 17, 2022, 8:57 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Probly: a Python-like lan­guage for prob­a­bil­is­tic modelling

ProbabilityEnjoyerMar 18, 2024, 1:19 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(probly.dev)

GiveDirectly’s cost-effec­tive­ness could be 6.7x higher

Carolina TothNov 3, 2022, 4:39 AM
21 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Hyper­ten­sion is Ex­tremely Im­por­tant, Tractable, and Neglected

MarshallMay 13, 2022, 3:00 PM
19 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How much (more) data do we need to claim ex­treme cost-effec­tive­ness?

Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 3Oct 1, 2024, 12:36 PM
26 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of sci­en­tific research

Falk LiederJul 16, 2022, 12:20 PM
36 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

Value of In­fo­ma­tion, an ex­am­ple with GiveDirectly

SamNolanAug 30, 2022, 8:37 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Is GiveWell un­der­es­ti­mat­ing the health value of lead erad­i­ca­tion?

JakobAug 21, 2022, 3:13 PM
33 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Why GiveWell should use com­plete un­cer­tainty quantification

TanaeDec 27, 2022, 8:11 PM
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(suboptimal.substack.com)

Mass me­dia in­ter­ven­tions prob­a­bly de­serve more at­ten­tion (Founders Pledge)

Rosie_BettleNov 17, 2022, 3:01 PM
146 points
8 comments41 min readEA link

Hap­piness for the whole house­hold: ac­count­ing for house­hold spillovers when com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of psy­chother­apy to cash trans­fers

JoelMcGuireApr 14, 2022, 8:05 PM
51 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

[Question] Does GiveWell still plan to model the un­cer­tainty of their cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­mates?

AnonymousAntelopeJun 25, 2024, 1:12 PM
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

If we ever want to start an “Amounts mat­ter” move­ment, covid re­sponse might be a good flag/​example

AnnaSalamonJul 24, 2022, 2:26 AM
53 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Vida Plena Pre­dic­tive Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

Samuel DupretDec 26, 2022, 5:43 AM
48 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Equity should be a part of effec­tive­ness eval­u­a­tions

AkhilJan 31, 2022, 7:48 PM
28 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

I Re­viewed the 4000-page Disease Con­trol Pri­ori­ties Col­lec­tion: Fund 4 Pro­grams; Divest from Cost-in­effec­tive Bed­nets and Deworming

brb243Jul 9, 2022, 10:36 PM
20 points
9 comments18 min readEA link

A New Idea for Fi­nanc­ing Philanthropy

Ryan AdlerMay 17, 2022, 10:14 PM
3 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Bulk­ing in­for­ma­tion ad­di­tion­al­ities in global de­vel­op­ment for medium-term lo­cal prosperity

brb243Apr 11, 2022, 5:52 PM
4 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of op­er­a­tions man­age­ment in high-im­pact organisations

Vasco Grilo🔸Nov 27, 2022, 10:33 AM
48 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­ma­tion with pro­gram, fund­ing, and in­sti­tu­tional coun­ter­fac­tual im­pact data

brb243Apr 8, 2022, 4:50 PM
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What are some af­ford­able RCT re­search or­ga­ni­za­tions?

brb243Jan 12, 2022, 9:22 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive pan­demic preparedness

JoshuaBlakeDec 21, 2023, 5:06 PM
25 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

So­lar4Africa Pro­ject 2: Small so­lar cars for non-emer­gency health ser­vices ac­cess — Pre­limi­nary cost effec­tive­ness analysis

Robert Van BuskirkDec 24, 2023, 5:06 PM
13 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] When should the in­verse-var­i­ance method be ap­plied to dis­tri­bu­tions?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 14, 2022, 2:33 PM
5 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Can it be more cost-effec­tive to pre­vent than to treat ob­stet­ric fis­tu­las?

brb243Jan 10, 2022, 7:39 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Utopian Equality

David NNov 9, 2024, 10:07 PM
2 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive­ness of an­ti­malar­ial bed nets with chlorfenapyr

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57 points
0 comments21 min readEA link

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23 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

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75 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

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18 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

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41 points
3 comments19 min readEA link

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20 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
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118 points
53 comments5 min readEA link

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41 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

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35 points
14 comments18 min readEA link

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17 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

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27 points
7 comments13 min readEA link

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26 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

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15 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

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7 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

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66 points
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7 points
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24 points
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93 points
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