Thanks, Sanjay! David Roodman's findings had trickled through to me with a distortion, and it's very good to have that corrected. Saving lives somewhere like Chad or Niger (where apparently the offset is significantly less than 1:1) doesn't come into the career decision I'm making right now, so it looks like I'm safe.
Though I think I'll want to make sure to do more reading on this before I donate to the GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund again. Unless they've made it a policy not to support life-saving work in places where the fertility-mortality offset is weaker?
Thanks, Sanjay! David Roodman's findings had trickled through to me with a distortion, and it's very good to have that corrected. Saving lives somewhere like Chad or Niger (where apparently the offset is significantly less than 1:1) doesn't come into the career decision I'm making right now, so it looks like I'm safe.
Though I think I'll want to make sure to do more reading on this before I donate to the GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund again. Unless they've made it a policy not to support life-saving work in places where the fertility-mortality offset is weaker?