[Linkpost] “Social science research we’d like to see on global health and wellbeing [Open Philanthropy]” by Aaron Gertler, Open Philanthropy

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular)

Open Philanthropy strives to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. To find the best opportunities to help others, we rely heavily on scientific and social scientific research.

In some cases, we would find it helpful to have more research in order to evaluate a particular grant or cause area. Below, we’ve listed a set of social scientific questions for which we are actively seeking more evidence.[1] We believe the answers to these questions have the potential to impact our grantmaking. (See also our list of research topics for animal welfare.)

If you know of any research that touches on these questions, we would welcome hearing from you. At this point, we are not actively making grants to further investigate these questions. It is possible we may do so in the future, though, so if you plan to research any of these, please [...]

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Outline:

(00:59) Land Use Reform

(05:53) Health

(15:39) Migration

(17:21) Education

(19:27) Science and Metascience

(29:18) Global Development

(31:26) Other

The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
February 15th, 2024

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/3Y7c7MXf3BzgruTWv/social-science-research-we-d-like-to-see-on-global-health

Linkpost URL:
https://www.openphilanthropy.org/research/social-science-research-topics-for-global-health-and-wellbeing/

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