david_reinstein

Karma: 3,309

I am a Senior Economist at Rethink Priorities (https://www.rethinkpriorities.org/our-team), previously an Economics lecturer/professor for 15 years

I’m working to impact EA fundraising and marketing; see https://bit.ly/eamtt

And projects bridging EA, academia, and open science (esp. the ‘Unjournal’) … see bit.ly/eaprojects

My previous and ongoing research focuses on determinants and motivators of charitable giving (propensity, amounts, and ‘to which cause?’), and drivers of/barriers to effective giving, as well as the impact of pro-social behavior and social preferences on market contexts.

Podcasts: “Found in the Struce” https://anchor.fm/david-reinstein

and the EA Forum podcast: https://anchor.fm/ea-forum-podcast (co-founder, regular reader)

Twitter: @givingtools

david_reinstein 27 May 2023 14:25 UTC
3 points
0
on: Mexico EA Fellowship
Wondering what the EA Mexico fellowship was like? I audio recorded some of my own experiences and chats, and I’m putting it into my podcast.
First episode: Turismo Eficaz, episode 1 (On the Podcast “Found in the Struce” … on all platforms)

This one has some discussion of AI safety areas and careers that people may find interesting and useful.

If there’s interest I’ll put up a couple more episodes from my audio, with some discussions about the fellowship and potential future initiatives.

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 15:42 UTC
2 points
0
on: what percentage of income does one have to give to be in the top 1% in this category of people between those who regularly support charities?
The earlier EA Survey Donation post (and linked notebook/Bookdown chapter on this) may be helpful.

But I’m not sure which base group you are considering, or what measure you are considering

Base group: All people who identify as EAs, all US Americans, all people in the world, all people in the world with income above some value?

Metric: Top 1% in terms of absolute amounts given or in terms of share of income given?

I think you might be able tease out the answer to some of your questions from [this paper](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Evolving-Distribution-of-Giving-in-the-United-Duquette/48b092a6436e213b45d86e090cce508ac16ab77d). Sorry I don’t have the data/numbers to hand, I’ve worked on this before.

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 14:58 UTC
2 points
0
in reply to: david_reinstein’s comment on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Actually I’m wrong—you see this when you hover-over; thanks Jack. I’ll delete this comment

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 9:12 UTC
3 points
3
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Wait a second I just realised a flaw in this system: I don’t think approval voting keeps track of how many people voted. Going forward PLEASE VOTE YES to this comment so I can keep count.

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:27 UTC
2 points
−8
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Q8: Is it important for you that your parents would approve of you donating from your inheritance (i.e., would it make it easier for you to do so)?

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:24 UTC
2 points
18
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Q7: Would you consider making a pledge to donate from your inheritance?

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:24 UTC
2 points
20
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Q6: Would you consider donating some substantial share of your inheritance to effective charities?

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:23 UTC
2 points
12
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Q5: Do you expect to inherit more than $100k (in US dollar equivalent value of all assets) from your parents?

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:22 UTC
2 points
19
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Q4: Whether or not you have written a will or plan to do so soon… do you intend to leave some or all of your assets to an effective charity?

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:21 UTC
2 points
7
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Q3: Would you like to write your will within the next year, if an individual or organization you trust would help you do it?

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:21 UTC
2 points
−9
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
Q2: Have you written a will involving a bequest to an effective charity/charities?

david_reinstein 16 May 2023 0:19 UTC
2 points
−13
on: “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”
“Have you established a legally binding will?” (I.e., bequest, i.e., ‘last will and testament’)

[Question] “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”

david_reinstein16 May 2023 0:18 UTC

21 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

david_reinstein 13 May 2023 22:33 UTC
2 points
0
in reply to: Yonatan Cale’s comment on: Proposed - ‘How Much Does It Cost to Save a Life?’ Quiz, calculator, tool
Thanks. I’ll try to follow up. I don’t think it’s completely a software/IT issue, but that’s a major part of it.

david_reinstein 13 May 2023 15:51 UTC
7 points
0
on: Prioritising animal welfare over global health and development?
For balance and completeness… Would it make sense to add something (or another piece) considering the impact of chicken welfare improvement funding on wild animal welfare?

david_reinstein 13 May 2023 15:45 UTC
2 points
0
in reply to: david_reinstein’s comment on: Proposed - ‘How Much Does It Cost to Save a Life?’ Quiz, calculator, tool
I.e., it piques my curiosity. when someone asks me something I think I know the answer to (and have strong opinions on) but have heard contradictory things, I want to click it to scratch the itch.

david_reinstein 13 May 2023 15:44 UTC
2 points
0
in reply to: Sanjay’s comment on: Proposed - ‘How Much Does It Cost to Save a Life?’ Quiz, calculator, tool

Even if it did go viral, it seems it would have a pretty low impact on the extent to which EA has greater acceptance.

I think I might agree (and maybe I should take that out of the ToC) but could you elaborate a bit on “why not”?

The base argument is “people see this important insight they were wrong about, they are impressed with the careful evidence and arguments, they see it’s linked to EA, this increases their interest in EA and how much credibility they give EA”… I guess that’s how many of us came into EA, but it’s not said that this would be the dominant path for people exposed to this.

david_reinstein 13 May 2023 15:38 UTC
2 points
0
in reply to: Sanjay’s comment on: Proposed - ‘How Much Does It Cost to Save a Life?’ Quiz, calculator, tool
That media list seems outdated … or perhaps it applies more to passive content (not even ‘clicks’). The proposal is more in the nature of the ‘personality quiz’, ‘one weird trick’, ‘can you guess better than a 5 year old’ or ‘here’s what you are wrong about’ internet genre.

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

david_reinstein12 May 2023 21:01 UTC

37 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

david_reinstein 7 May 2023 14:33 UTC
6 points
2
in reply to: MichaelStJules’s comment on: Maybe Family Planning Charities Are Better For Farmed Animals Than Animal Welfare Ones
This was the context, thanks. Agree with you. And I’m intuitively skeptical of the argument in both cases: I suspect meat and animal consumption seems likely to persist for quite some time, as does a high carbon lifestyle. Likely to decrease in high income countries, but maybe to 50% or higher, so adding to population will still be a strong negative through this channel (caveat: this is mostly just my intuition.) The case that ‘future kids will be so much better’ so don’t worry seems a bit wishful thinking and suspicious convergency to me.

david_reinstein

[Question] “Have you writ­ten a will in­volv­ing a be­quest to char­ity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an in­her­i­tance?”

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

[Question] “Have you written a will involving a bequest to charity?”; “Do you plan to donate from an inheritance?”

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