Has anyone done a survey where they just ask what risk of dying people would accept to get a chance at a substantially higher standard of living, or how many years of life at their current standard of living they would trade off aganist a wester standard for living? I wouldn’t super trust people’s judgement to actually track what’s good here, but it seems like a very rough first pass (and is also how we are already constructing the “disability-adjustment” that’s happening in Disability-Adjusted-Life-Years, IIRC).
Curious if anyone has any references. It seems like the kind of thing someone working on DALYs might have already done.
Back in 2019 GiveWell surveyed 2,000 people in Kenya and Ghana.
The results from this research are now available here. Among other findings, they suggest that survey respondents have higher values for saving lives (relative to reducing poverty) and higher values for averting deaths of children under 5 years old (relative to averting deaths of individuals over 5 years old) than we had previously been using in our decision-making.
Hmm, I can’t find the relevant question in the linked results PDF. I can only find comparisons within a country on what their tradeoff is between money for personal consumption and death (which is somewhat related but doesn’t really obviously interface with the point made in the OP)
Agree, this would be a more pertinent to answering this question than what GiveWell has commissioned thus far. I’m meeting someone this weekend who is working on DALYs at the Effective Institutions Project. Will update here if I hear something interesting.
Has anyone done a survey where they just ask what risk of dying people would accept to get a chance at a substantially higher standard of living, or how many years of life at their current standard of living they would trade off aganist a wester standard for living? I wouldn’t super trust people’s judgement to actually track what’s good here, but it seems like a very rough first pass (and is also how we are already constructing the “disability-adjustment” that’s happening in Disability-Adjusted-Life-Years, IIRC).
Curious if anyone has any references. It seems like the kind of thing someone working on DALYs might have already done.
Back in 2019 GiveWell surveyed 2,000 people in Kenya and Ghana.
Hmm, I can’t find the relevant question in the linked results PDF. I can only find comparisons within a country on what their tradeoff is between money for personal consumption and death (which is somewhat related but doesn’t really obviously interface with the point made in the OP)
Agree, this would be a more pertinent to answering this question than what GiveWell has commissioned thus far. I’m meeting someone this weekend who is working on DALYs at the Effective Institutions Project. Will update here if I hear something interesting.