Elie Hassenfeld
Person on 3 sites
Co-founder and chief executive of GiveWell, which researches where a donation buys the most measurable good and publishes the arithmetic behind its…
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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3 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Explicit cost-effectiveness models deserve less weight in a giving decision than the strength of the organisation carrying the work out. (opens korrents.com)
“I remain ambivalent about putting so much weight on cost-effectiveness estimates because they are subject to numerous debatable assumptions, but I’ve changed my mind based on work we did over the past few months.”
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An excellent organisation is significantly more likely to succeed than a weaker one, so organisational strength belongs in the decision about where to give. (opens korrents.com)
“This has reinforced my intuition that excellent organizations are significantly more likely to succeed than others, and GiveDirectly’s overall excellence increases my estimate of the impact it will achieve.”
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It is not appropriate to donate to your own employer, however good a giving opportunity it would otherwise be. (opens korrents.com)
“I’m not donating to GiveWell, because I don’t find it appropriate to donate to my employer, for similar reasons to what Holden wrote last year.”
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Explicit cost-effectiveness models deserve less weight in a giving decision than the strength of the organisation carrying the work out. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Factfulness (opens rcmnd.app)
“uh one is factfulness by the late Hans Rosling. Uh this is a book that just brings global health data to to to the world. It's say the core argument of the book is something like in order to prioritize correctly we…”
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Poor Economics (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh second book poor economics by Esther Duffel and Abig Banerjee. They're two of the founding members of this randomized control trial movement in development economics. And this book gives an overview of of their work…”
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers (opens rcmnd.app)
“And then finally a book called Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Buu. uh she spent years in uh in Anawadi. It's an informal urban settlement sometimes known as a slum near the Mumbai airport and it just paints…”
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Factfulness (opens rcmnd.app)