“Research I’d like to see” by Alex Cohen

I’m Alex Cohen, Principal Researcher at GiveWell. From time to time, we get questions from people outside of GiveWell about ways they could help our research. I decided to write down a few concrete research questions that I think would be informative to us and seem doable primarily with desk-based research, rather than original data collection or field visits (though those would probably help). These are listed below. They’re not in any particular order and are roughly similar levels of priority. While our team may work on some of these questions over the next year, even in those cases, extra input is still likely to be useful. If you decide to take these on, I’d be interested in what you find, so please post your answers to the forum. Also, if you find these types of questions interesting, please consider applying for our Senior Researcher role. “Red teaming” some [...] ---Outline:(00:56) “Red teaming” some newer grantmaking areas(01:53) Moral weights questions(03:10) Burden of disease questions(09:00) Indirect deathsThe original text contained 30 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 17th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2TcdiAFSTuS6jBvNL/research-i-d-like-to-see-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.