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Thanks for your comment.
We agree that economic implications are complex, and discuss this in our longer analysis document, where we too focus on productivity.
Some of the comments we have made in response to karthik-t may also be relevant here.
Thank you for your comment.
I'm sorry you were disappointed by the lack of detail on this post.
- The full analysis for this includes a longer document which provides more details on the analysis, a supplementary analysis, a document which sets out the details behind our full replication of the replicability adjustment that GiveWell applies.
- I believe that someone who had read through all of this would have been less disappointed, however it's also not reasonable to expect a reader to wade through that much detail.
- The amount of detail that we
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So I went over the additional documents and I owe you an apology for being dismissive. There is indeed more to the analysis than I thought, and it was flippant to suggest that your or GiveWell's replicability adjustment was just "this number looks too high" and thus incorporates this. Having gone through the replicability adjustment document, I think it makes a lot more sense than I gave it credit for.
What I couldn't gather from the document was where exactly you differed from GiveWell. Is it only in the economic losers weighting? Were your components from weight gain, years of schooling and cognition the same as GiveWell's? In the sheet where you calculate the replicability adjustment, there is no factoring of economic losers as far as I can tell, so in order to arrive at the new replicability adjustment you must have had to differ from GiveWell in the mechanism adjustment, right?
Hi Karthik, we're glad to hear our additional documents provided useful detail. We apologise if our deviation from GiveWell wasn't clear, but hopefully our explanation below is clarifying.
While we made a few minor amendments to GiveWell's replicability adjustment, including to the weight/cognition/schooling components (as outlined in this section), our most material change was to account for economic losers. We account for economic losers by adjusting the size of the effect from the 20-year Busia follow-up (if you would like to see the calc... (read more)