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david_reinstein

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See davidreinstein.org

I’m the Founder and Co-director of The Unjournal; We organize and fund public journal-independent feedback, rating, and evaluation of hosted papers and dynamically-presented research projects. We will focus on work that is highly relevant to global priorities (especially in economics, social science, and impact evaluation). We will encourage better research by making it easier for researchers to get feedback and credible ratings on their work.


Previously I was a Senior Economist at Rethink Priorities, and before that n 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.. 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

The Un­jour­nal: July up­dates and op­por­tu­ni­ties (full up­date [fixed links])

david_reinsteinJul 22, 2023, 1:21 AM
12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(globalimpact.gitbook.io)

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

david_reinsteinMay 16, 2023, 12:18 AM
28 points
12 comments1 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

Is CBT effec­tive for poor house­holds? Two re­cent pa­pers (eval­u­ated by The Un­jour­nal) with con­trast­ing results

david_reinsteinApr 17, 2023, 8:46 PM
38 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

Anti-‘FOOM’ (stop try­ing to make your cute pet name the thing)

david_reinsteinApr 14, 2023, 4:05 PM
41 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal Evals: “Ad­vance Mar­ket Com­mit­ments: In­sights from The­ory and Ex­pe­rience”

david_reinsteinMar 21, 2023, 4:59 PM
27 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

Un­jour­nal: Eval­u­a­tions of “Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence and Eco­nomic Growth”, and new host­ing space

david_reinsteinMar 17, 2023, 8:20 PM
47 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(unjournal.pubpub.org)

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)

Idea: Cu­rated database of quick-win tan­gible, at­tributable pro­jects (up­date 2024: links Airtable, but the EA side is not ac­tively mon­i­tored)

david_reinsteinJan 13, 2023, 10:21 PM
29 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

EA Houses: Airtable, Map, tech projects

david_reinsteinJan 11, 2023, 8:30 PM
29 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(airtable.com)

EA Mar­ket Test­ing: Sum­mary of your feedback

david_reinsteinJan 5, 2023, 9:09 PM
18 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Plan­ning and doc­u­men­ta­tion: should we do more (or less)?

david_reinsteinJan 2, 2023, 5:35 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

MacKen­zie Scott’s grant­mak­ing data

david_reinsteinDec 15, 2022, 9:19 PM
39 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(yieldgiving.com)

Pro­posed: dona­tion mechanism for peo­ple do­ing di­rect work (USA tax rele­vant)

david_reinsteinNov 28, 2022, 8:06 PM
24 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Jeff Be­zos an­nounces dona­tion plans (in re­sponse to ques­tion)

david_reinsteinNov 14, 2022, 2:31 PM
113 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cnn.com)

Mar­ket­ing Mes­sages Trial for GWWC Giv­ing Guide Cam­paign

Erin MorrisseySep 8, 2022, 4:22 PM
59 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

“Two-fac­tor” vot­ing (“two di­men­sional”: karma, agree­ment) for EA fo­rum?

david_reinsteinJun 25, 2022, 11:10 AM
81 points
18 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Where to donate goods/​text­books/​items ~effec­tively in the UK/​US/​be­yond?

david_reinsteinJun 18, 2022, 5:32 PM
14 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal: Call for par­ti­ci­pants and re­search

david_reinsteinJun 13, 2022, 11:11 AM
42 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(effective-giving-marketing.gitbook.io)

Giv­ing What We Can—Pledge page trial (EA Mar­ket Test­ing)

david_reinsteinMay 16, 2022, 10:39 PM
56 points
4 comments3 min readEA link