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, Random Acts,RCTs: Panacea or Mirage?, In Defense of the Streetlight Effect

Giving Game: Against Malaria Foundation vs.Give Directly

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.)