zdgroff

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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

zdgroff2 Nov 2023 20:53 UTC

271 points

37 comments5 min readEA link

(zachfreitasgroff.com)

AGI Catastrophe and Takeover: Some Reference Class-Based Priors

zdgroff24 May 2023 19:14 UTC

103 points

9 comments6 min readEA link

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

zdgroff24 Jun 2019 21:51 UTC

83 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

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

zdgroff22 Jul 2020 23:47 UTC

63 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

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

zdgroff12 Apr 2021 19:11 UTC

60 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

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

zdgroff4 Apr 2022 19:09 UTC

49 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Two Nice Experiments on Democracy and Altruism

zdgroff30 Dec 2020 18:56 UTC

37 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

Who Supports Animal Rights?

zdgroff29 Jul 2019 10:58 UTC

34 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

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

zdgroff4 Sep 2018 15:55 UTC

31 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

Should Effective Charities Prepare for a Recession?

zdgroff29 Nov 2018 0:02 UTC

28 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

The Hidden Cost of Shifting Away from Poverty

zdgroff9 Oct 2017 15:58 UTC

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5 comments2 min readEA link

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

zdgroff17 Dec 2018 17:50 UTC

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3 comments1 min readEA link

Want to Save the World? Enter the Priesthood

zdgroff9 Jul 2019 9:18 UTC

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Do Long-Lived Scientists Hold Back Their Disciplines?

zdgroff12 Aug 2019 18:33 UTC

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[Question] Pros/Cons of Donor-Advised Fund

zdgroff22 Apr 2019 0:56 UTC

13 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

Institutional Change in Animal Rights vs. Global Poverty

zdgroff10 May 2016 23:05 UTC

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3 comments5 min readEA link

The Poor Meat Investor Problem

zdgroff21 Apr 2016 21:17 UTC

11 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

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

zdgroff20 Dec 2017 3:53 UTC

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3 comments1 min readEA link

Announcing ImpactMatters: Auditing Charity Impact across Causes

zdgroff11 Dec 2015 17:21 UTC

9 points

9 comments2 min readEA link

Be Careful About a Stubborn Attachment to Growth

zdgroff20 Dec 2018 2:34 UTC

7 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.zachgroff.com)