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Staff members’ personal donations for giving season 2015

Elie Hassenfeld · 9 Dec 2015

A change of mind in this piece

Explicit cost-effectiveness models deserve less weight in a giving decision than the strength of the organisation carrying the work out.

No longer holdsI 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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    Explicit cost-effectiveness models deserve less weight in a giving decision than the strength of the organisation carrying the work out.

    No longer holdsI 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.
    Their words nowThe resulting strong consensus that cash is significantly less cost-effective than bednets/deworming persuaded me to put more weight on cost-effectiveness analysis in my giving this year.

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