Week 2: Impact Evaluation We continue to explore global poverty as a cause area, focusing on how we can measure the effects of an intervention. Global health and poverty is a very large field with thousands of charities; we discuss the criteria nonprofit evaluator GiveWell uses to choose from among them. (optional) Readings: The Unintuitive Power Laws of Giving<http://www.jefftk.com/p/the-unintuitive-power-laws-of-giving>, Random Acts<http://www.slate.com/articles/business/crosspollination/2014/03/randomized_controlled_trials_do_they_work_for_economic_development.html>,RCTs: Panacea or Mirage?<https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/randomized-controlled-trials-panacea-or-mirage/>, In Defense of the Streetlight Effect<http://blog.givewell.org/2011/05/27/in-defense-of-the-streetlight-effect/> Giving Game: Against Malaria Foundation<https://www.againstmalaria.com/> vs.Give Directly<https://www.givedirectly.org/><https://www.givedirectly.org/> As always, meetings are open to all of campus and held in Collis 218 on Friday from 4:30 to 6pm. (We're following Berkeley's effective altruism course syllabus<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pUpN9zQnBBOk7L-ectinoiwCOCmB8SWc0ojL76a7Zhg/edit>.)
