CE Team
Apr 8, 20166 min read
Tobacco Taxation
This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We...
CE Team
Apr 1, 20163 min read
Lessons learned from India
Everything takes longer One of the biggest things we noticed while in India was that it takes large amounts of time even to accomplish...
CE Team
Mar 30, 201610 min read
What's so great about increasing IQ?
--- This blog post has been edited and updated based on new information sent to us about the relationship between IQ and income. We feel...
CE Team
Mar 22, 20162 min read
Thoughts on living in the developing world
When we decided to do this project many of our advisors suggested we spend time in the developing world to get a stronger sense of some...
CE Team
Mar 17, 20162 min read
Progress update and prioritization change
We have passed our March 1st deadline for our first section and have not quite completed all we aimed to do. We have two large changes...
CE Team
Mar 7, 20161 min read
A High-level Review of our Thoughts on Interventions
Two months ago, we set out to identify possibilities for future GiveWell top charities, with the intention to start one ourselves. We...
CE Team
Jan 26, 20164 min read
Reflections on our first slum tour
Our team is now in India, and one of the first things we did was arrange a tour of a large slum in New Delhi. We did this through PETE, a...
CE Team
Jan 23, 20143 min read
What are DALYs and are they a good metric?
Disability Adjusted Life-Years (DALYs) are a measure of how many years of healthy life are lost due to an early death or a debilitating...