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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
496
Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
Gavin
3mo
9
308
Snakebites kill 100,000 people every year, here's what you should know
MathiasKB
7mo
36
305
Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis
JoelMcGuire
4mo
35
237
Seven things that surprised us in our first year working in policy - Lead Exposure Elimination Project
Jack
1y
7
223
Effectiveness is a Conjunction of Multipliers
Thomas Kwa
9mo
35
215
The Base Rate of Longtermism Is Bad
ColdButtonIssues
3mo
28
178
Why development aid is a really exciting field
MathiasKB
13d
21
173
The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections
GiveWell
5d
10
168
Don’t just give well, give WELLBYs: HLI’s 2022 charity recommendation
MichaelPlant
26d
47
156
Introducing LEEP: Lead Exposure Elimination Project
Jack
2y
26
152
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
147
Announcing Squiggle: Early Access
Ozzie Gooen
4mo
11
146
Introducing Cause Innovation Bootcamp
Akhil
2mo
15
142
Announcing the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses
GiveWell
3mo
4
389
Growth and the case against randomista development
Hauke Hillebrandt
2y
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256
Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research: Founders Pledge
Vadim Albinsky
2mo
45
154
Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies
MichaelPlant
5mo
28
140
"Why Nations Fail" and the long-termist view of global poverty
Ben_Kuhn
3y
20
137
Does Economic History Point Toward a Singularity?
Ben Garfinkel
2y
58
133
Intervention Report: Charter Cities
David Rhys Bernard
1y
19
116
Existential Risk and Economic Growth
leopold
3y
31
115
The academic contribution to AI safety seems large
Gavin
2y
28
112
Help me find the crux between EA/XR and Progress Studies
jasoncrawford
1y
37
99
Visualizing the development gap
Stephen Clare
13d
19
98
Can we drive development at scale? An interim update on economic growth work
Stephen Clare
2y
14
96
A Case and Model for Aggressively Funding Effective Charities
aaronhamlin
2y
6
89
Some thoughts on David Roodman’s model of economic growth and its relation to AI timelines
Tom_Davidson
1y
6
83
Progress studies vs. longtermist EA: some differences
Max_Daniel
1y
27