zdgroff

Karma: 2,103

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Stanford University. Within effective altruism, I am interested in broad longtermism, long-term institutions and values, and animal welfare. In economics, my areas of interest include political economy, behavioral economics, and public economics.

How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper

zdgroffNov 2, 2023, 8:53 PM

276 points

37 comments5 min readEA link

(zachfreitasgroff.com)

AGI Catastrophe and Takeover: Some Reference Class-Based Priors

zdgroffMay 24, 2023, 7:14 PM

95 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

Call for Papers: The Economics of Animal Welfare, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics 2022

zdgroffApr 4, 2022, 7:09 PM

49 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is there evidence that recommender systems are changing users’ preferences?

zdgroffApr 12, 2021, 7:11 PM

60 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Two Nice Experiments on Democracy and Altruism

zdgroffDec 30, 2020, 6:56 PM

37 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How Much Does New Research Inform Us About Existential Climate Risk?

zdgroffJul 22, 2020, 11:47 PM

63 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Do Long-Lived Scientists Hold Back Their Disciplines?

zdgroffAug 12, 2019, 6:33 PM

13 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Who Supports Animal Rights?

zdgroffJul 29, 2019, 10:58 AM

34 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Want to Save the World? Enter the Priesthood

zdgroffJul 9, 2019, 9:18 AM

18 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

How Much Do Wild Animals Suffer? A Foundational Result on the Question is Wrong.

zdgroffJun 24, 2019, 9:51 PM

84 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Pros/Cons of Donor-Advised Fund

zdgroffApr 22, 2019, 12:56 AM

13 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

Be Careful About a Stubborn Attachment to Growth

zdgroffDec 20, 2018, 2:34 AM

7 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.zachgroff.com)

[Link] “Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?”

zdgroffDec 17, 2018, 5:50 PM

19 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Should Effective Charities Prepare for a Recession?

zdgroffNov 29, 2018, 12:02 AM

28 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

What I Learned from a Year Spent Studying How to Get Policymakers to Use Evidence

zdgroffSep 4, 2018, 3:55 PM

32 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

Updates Thread: How Have You Changed Your Mind This Year?

zdgroffDec 20, 2017, 3:53 AM

10 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

The Hidden Cost of Shifting Away from Poverty

zdgroffOct 9, 2017, 3:58 PM

22 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Institutional Change in Animal Rights vs. Global Poverty

zdgroffMay 10, 2016, 11:05 PM

12 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

The Poor Meat Investor Problem

zdgroffApr 21, 2016, 9:17 PM

11 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

Announcing ImpactMatters: Auditing Charity Impact across Causes

zdgroffDec 11, 2015, 5:21 PM

9 points

9 comments2 min readEA link