by Samuel Dupret, Joel McGuire, Ryan Dwyer and Michael Plant | Dec 21, 2022
A can of worms: the non-significant effect of deworming on happiness Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Summary Mass deworming, where many people are provided drugs to treat parasitic worms, has long been considered a highly cost-effective intervention to...
by Joel McGuire, Michael Plant and Samuel Dupret | Nov 1, 2022
A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum This essay was written for GiveWell’s Change Our Mind Contest1Joel produced the critiques and did most of the reasoning, calculations and writing. Michael and Samuel provided...
by Joel McGuire, Samuel Dupret and Michael Plant | Jul 25, 2022
Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis Download Report as PDF Discuss on the EA Forum Summary At the Happier Lives Institute, we have been replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis of deworming. GiveWell’s model assumes that...