There are education programs in low-income countries that deliver the equivalent of three years of high-quality schooling for about $100 per child. GiveWell doesn't fund them.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Friday, August 14, 2026
Seeing Clearly: Red-teaming GiveWell's Glasses Research
If you are one of the 166 million Americans who wear glasses, take them off. Now imagine going your whole life like that. Not fun, right? Whether due to prohibitive cost or a lack of awareness/education, over a billion people are estimated to be living with avoidable vision impairment.
Sounds like a promising cause area! GiveWell has done a few analyses on eyeglasses provision and is funding an ongoing RCT that will provide our best evidence yet on the effects of correcting vision impairment. They’ve concluded the evidence is stronger for productivity effects than for educational effects; the RCT will focus on productivity. In this post, I’ll review their glasses -> productivity cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), summarizing what GiveWell found and adding some new wrinkles. In a subsequent post, I’ll take a stab at an education-focused CEA, which GiveWell has not yet done.
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Well, Well, Well…Do Wells Clear the Bar?
Having two articles in the three years following my angsty post about needing to write more is a bit embarrassing. To help ease my pain, let it be known that I've written two EA Forum posts in the last year, analyzing a local organization working on installing wells in Niger.
This was a really fun project to work on. There was a lot of engagement on both posts which was very cool to see!
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
A Hill Worth Dying On: Why it's Thiam to turn the LePage on track's most underdiscussed stat
What do all these men have in common?
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