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Global health and development
GiveWell
Cost-effectiveness analysis
Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute
Religion
Cash transfers
GiveWell Change Our Mind Contest
GiveDirectly
Obituary
Family planning
Malaria
Intervention evaluation
118 posts
Forum Prize
Economics
Economic growth
Progress studies
Differential progress
Charter cities
Randomized controlled trials
Technological completion conjecture
Charter Cities Institute
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Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
Gavin
3mo
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Snakebites kill 100,000 people every year, here's what you should know
MathiasKB
7mo
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Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis
JoelMcGuire
4mo
35
238
Seven things that surprised us in our first year working in policy - Lead Exposure Elimination Project
Jack
1y
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Effectiveness is a Conjunction of Multipliers
Thomas Kwa
9mo
35
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The Base Rate of Longtermism Is Bad
ColdButtonIssues
3mo
28
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Donating money, buying happiness: new meta-analyses comparing the cost-effectiveness of cash transfers and psychotherapy in terms of subjective well-being
MichaelPlant
1y
46
177
Introducing LEEP: Lead Exposure Elimination Project
Jack
2y
26
176
Why development aid is a really exciting field
MathiasKB
13d
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Don’t just give well, give WELLBYs: HLI’s 2022 charity recommendation
MichaelPlant
26d
47
165
You Don’t Have to Call Yourself an Effective Altruist or Fraternize With Effective Altruists or Support Longtermism, Just Please, for the Love of God, Help the Global Poor
Omnizoid
4d
3
155
The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections
GiveWell
5d
10
150
Five New EA Charities with High Potential for Impact
Joey
2y
15
149
Announcing Squiggle: Early Access
Ozzie Gooen
4mo
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Growth and the case against randomista development
Hauke Hillebrandt
2y
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Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research: Founders Pledge
Vadim Albinsky
2mo
45
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Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies
MichaelPlant
5mo
28
131
"Why Nations Fail" and the long-termist view of global poverty
Ben_Kuhn
3y
20
120
Intervention Report: Charter Cities
David Rhys Bernard
1y
19
116
Does Economic History Point Toward a Singularity?
Ben Garfinkel
2y
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115
The academic contribution to AI safety seems large
Gavin
2y
28
112
Existential Risk and Economic Growth
leopold
3y
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Help me find the crux between EA/XR and Progress Studies
jasoncrawford
1y
37
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Can we drive development at scale? An interim update on economic growth work
Stephen Clare
2y
14
83
Visualizing the development gap
Stephen Clare
13d
19
80
A Case and Model for Aggressively Funding Effective Charities
aaronhamlin
2y
6
76
Open Philanthropy Shallow Investigation: Telecommunications in LMICs
Lauren Gilbert
5mo
9
76
Progress book recommendations
Daniel May
3y
7