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Artificial Intelligence and Economic Growth
Philippe Aghion
Benjamin F. Jones
Charles I. Jones
10/1/2017
Social impact of tech/AI
book chapter
University of Chicago Press
4.5
Advance Market Commitments: Insights from Theory and Experience
Michael Kremer
Jonathan D. Levin
Christopher M. Snyder
2/1/2021
Global health (LMICs)
Published (journal)
AEA Papers and Proceedings
4.5
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy among Ghana’s Rural Poor Is Effective Regardless of Baseline Mental Distress
Nathan Barker
Gharad T. Bryan
Dean Karlan
Angela Ofori-Atta
Christopher R. Udry
12/1/2022
Global health (LMICs)
Published (journal)
American Economic Review Insights
4
The Comparative Impact of Cash Transfers and a Psychotherapy Program on Psychological and Economic Well-being
Johannes Haushofer
Robert Mudida
Jeremy P. Shapiro
11/21/2020
Global health (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.5
Long term cost-effectiveness of resilient foods for global catastrophes compared to artificial general intelligence safety
David Denkenberger
Anders Sandberg
Ross John Tieman
Joshua M. Pearce
4/21/2022
Catastrophic & X-risk, LT, forecasting
Published (journal)
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
3.17
Banning wildlife trade can boost demand for unregulated threatened species
Takahiro Kubo
Taro Mieno
Shinya Uryu
Saeko Terada
Diogo Veríssimo
5/29/2022
Animal welfare, markets
Published (journal)
Conservation Letters
3
The Governance Of Non-Profits And Their Social Impact: Evidence From A Randomized Program In Healthcare In DRC
Anicet Fangwa
Caroline Flammer
Marieke Huysentruyt
Bertrand Quelin
8/29/2022
Global health (LMICs)
Published (journal)
Management Science
3.8
The Environmental Effects of Economic Production: Evidence from Ecological Observations
Yuanning Liang
Ivan Rudik
Eric Zou
10/11/2021
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4
Does the Squeaky Wheel Get More Grease? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Citizen Participation on Environmental Governance in China
Mark Buntaine
Michael Greenstone
Guojun He
Mengdi Liu
Shaoda Wang
Bing Zhang
8/14/2024
Environment
Published (journal)
American Economic Review
4.55
When Celebrities Speak: A Nationwide Twitter Experiment Promoting Vaccination In Indonesia
Vivi Alatas
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
Markus Mobius
Benjamin A. Olken
Cindy Paladines
2/25/2019
Global health (LMICs)
Published (journal)
The Economic Journal
Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning
B. Kelsey Jack
Seema Jayachandran
Namrata Kala
Rohini Pande
8/11/2022
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Published (journal)
American Economic Review Insights
4
Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery
6/21/2022
Catastrophic & X-risk, LT, forecasting
book chapter
2.5
When do “Nudges” Increase Welfare?
Hunt Allcott
Daniel Cohen
William Morrison
Dmitry Taubinsky
12/12/2022
Econ., welfare, misc.
Published (journal)
American Economic Review
3.85
The Benefits and Costs of Guest Worker Programs: Experimental Evidence From the India-UAE Migration Corridor
Suresh Naidu
Yaw Nyarko
Shing-Yi Wang
6/19/2023
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4
Universal Basic Income: Short-Term Results from a Long-Term Experiment in Kenya
Abhijit Banerjee
Michael Faye
Alan Krueger
Paul Niehaus
Tavneet Suri
9/15/2023
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.35
Replicability & Generalisability: A Guide to CEA discounts
Rosie Bettle
6/21/2023
Econ., welfare, misc.
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
The Long-Run Effects of Psychotherapy on Depression, Beliefs, and Economic Outcomes
Bhargav Bhat
Jonathan de Quidt
Johannes Haushofer
Vikram Patel
Gautam Rao
Frank Schilbach
Pierre-Luc Vautrey
1/31/2023
Global health (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.35
Legalizing Entrepreneurship
Dany Bahar
Bo Cowgill
Jorge Guzman
11/1/2022
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
3.6
Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets
Agha A. Akram
Shyamal Chowdhury
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
2.5
How Much Would Reducing Lead Exposure Improve Children’s Learning in the Developing World?
Lee Crawfurd
Rory Todd
Susannah Hares
Justin Sandefur
Rachel Silverman Bonnifield
7/1/2023
Global health (LMICs)
Published, uncertain peer review
The World Bank Research Observer
2.75
Economic vs. Epidemiological Approaches to Measuring the Human Capital Impacts of Infectious Disease Elimination
Caroline Chuard
Hannes Schwandt
Alexander D. Becker
Masahiko Haraguchi
7/1/2022
Global health (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
3.3
Does Conservation Work in General Equilibrium?
Verónica Salazar Restrepo
Gabriel Leite Mariante
12/8/2023
Econ., welfare, misc.
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4
Existential risk and growth
Leopold Aschenbrenner
Philip Trammell
Catastrophic & X-risk, LT, forecasting
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4
Willful Ignorance and Moral Behavior
Andreas Gerster
Raphael Epperson
Animal welfare, markets
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
SSRN Electronic Journal
Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization
Banerjee, Abhijit
Duflo, Esther
Arun G. Chandrasekhar
John Floretta
Harini Kannan
Francine Loza
Anirudh Sankar
Anna Schrimpf
Maheshwor Shrestha
Global health (LMICs)
Published (journal)
Econometrica
4.6
Forecasting Existential Risks: Evidence From a Long-Run Forecasting Tournament
Ezra Karger
Josh Rosenberg
Zachary Jacobs
Molly Hickman
Rose Hadshar
Kayla Gamin
Taylor Smith
Tegan McCaslin
Bridget Williams
Stephen Thomas
Philip E. Tetlock
Catastrophic & X-risk, LT, forecasting
Published (journal)
International Journal of Forecasting
4
Biodiversity risk
Stefano Giglio
Theresa Kuchler
Johannes Stroebel
Xuran Zeng
Environment
Published (journal)
WP
3.75
Water Treatment and Child Mortality: A Meta-analysis and Cost-effectiveness Analysis
Michael Kremer
Stephen P. Luby
Ricardo Maertens
Brandon Tan
Witold Więcek
10/9/2025
Global health (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
3.1
Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
Augustin Bergeron
Jean-Paul Carvalho
Joseph Henrich
Nathan Nunn
Jonathan L. Weigel
6/24/2024
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Revise and resubmit
WP
Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey
Michael W. Walker
Alice H. Huang
Suleiman Asman
Sarah J. Baird
Lia Fernald
Joan Hamory
Fernando Hoces de la Guardia
Satoshi Koiso
Michael Kremer
Matthew N. Krupoff
Michelle N. Layvant
Eric Ochieng
Pooja Suri
Edward Miguel
2/18/2025
Global health (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4
How Effective Is (More) Money? Randomizing Unconditional Cash Transfer Amounts in the US
Ania Jaroszewicz
Oliver Hauser
Jon Jachimowicz
Julian Jamison
12/19/2022
Econ., welfare, misc.
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
SSRN Electronic Journal
4.4
Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries
Noam Angrist
Micheal Ainomugisha
Sai Pramod Bathena
Peter Bergman
Colin Crossley
Claire Cullen
Thato Letsomo
Moitshepi Matsheng
Rene Marlon Panti
Shwetlena Sabarwal
Tim Sullivan
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.1
The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global vs. Local Temperature
Adrien Bilal
Diego R. Känzig
8/1/2024
Environment
Revise and resubmit
WP
4.6
The Returns to Science In the Presence of Technological Risks
Matt Clancy
12/21/2023
Innovation & meta-science
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
4.5
The animal welfare cost of meat: evidence from a survey of hypothetical scenarios among Belgian consumers
Stijn Bruers
Animal welfare, markets
Published (journal)
Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
2.5
Urban Forests: Environmental Health Values and Risks
Jianwei Xing
Zhiren Hu
Fan Xia
Jintao Xu
Eric Zou
8/1/2023
Environment
Revise and resubmit
Review of Economics and Statistics
4.35
Stagnation and Scientific Incentives
Jay Bhattacharya
Mikko Packalen
Innovation & meta-science
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
3
Adaptability and the Pivot Penalty in Science
Ryan Hill
Yian Yin
Carolyn Stein
Dashun Wang
Benjamin F. Jones
Innovation & meta-science
Published (journal)
arXiv (Cornell University)
4.5
A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change
Robert W. Hahn
Nathaniel Hendren
Robert D. Metcalfe
Ben Sprung-Keyser
2/7/2025
Environment
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.45
Choose Your Moments: [NIH] Peer Review and Scientific Risk Taking
Richard T. Carson
Joshua S. Graff Zivin
Jeffrey G. Shrader
Innovation & meta-science
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
3.9
Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions
Brooke Williams
Hawthorne Beyer
Matthew Fagan
Robin Chazdon
Marina Schmoeller
Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite
Bronson Griscom
James Watson
Anazélia Tedesco
Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich
Gabriel Daldegan
Blaise Bodin
Danielle Celentano
Sarah Wilson
Nikola Alexandre
Do-Hyung Kim
Diego Bastos Bastos
Renato Crouzeilles
Environment
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
Nature
4
Towards best practices in AGI safety and governance
Jonas Schuett
Noemi Dreksler
Markus Anderljung
David McCaffary
Lennart Heim
Emma Bluemke
Ben Garfinkel
5/11/2023
Social impact of tech/AI
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
4
The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D
Ashish Arora
Sharon Belenzon
Larisa C. Cioaca
Lia Sheer
Hansen Zhang
11/1/2023
Innovation & meta-science
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
3.4
The wellbeing cost-effectiveness of StrongMinds and Friendship Bench: Combining a systematic review and meta-analysis with charity-related data
Joel McGuire
Samuel Dupret
Ryan Dwyer
Michael Plant
Ben Stewart
James Goddard
Maxwell Klapow
Deanna Giraldi
Benjamin Olshin
Juliette Michelet
Thomas Beuchot
Global health (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.2
Pharmaceutical Pricing and R&D as a Global Public Good
H. E. Frech
Mark V. Pauly
William S. Comanor
Joseph R. Martinez
Econ., welfare, misc.
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
2.25
Population ethical intuitions.
Lucius Caviola
David Althaus
Andreas L. Mogensen
Geoffrey P. Goodwin
Attitudes, behaviors, psych, misinfo.
Published: Psychology journal
Cognition
4.27
Asymmetry in Civic Information: An Experiment on Tax Participation among Informal Firms in Togo
Moussa P. Blimpo
Paul Castañeda Dower
10/1/2021
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
Unpublished
WP
3.75
Misperceptions and Demand for Democracy under Authoritarianism
Daron Acemoglu
Cevat Giray Aksoy
Ceren Baysan
Carlos Molina
Gamze Zeki
10/1/2024
International coop/conflict, govt.
Working paper/mimeo, not published
WP
4.2
Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat and animal products is an unsolved problem: A meta-analysis
Seth Ariel Green
Austin Benny Smith
Maya Mathur
Animal welfare, markets
Working paper/mimeo, not published
WP
2.3
Ends versus Means: Kantians, Utilitarians, and Moral Decisions
Roland Bénabou
Armin Falk
Luca Henkel
1/29/2024
Other: Theory, etc.
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.1
Forecasts estimate limited cultured meat production through 2050 (EA forum post)
Neil Dullaghan
Linchuan Zhang
Animal welfare, markets
Web page/informal post
WP
Cash Transfers for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India
Jeffrey Weaver
,
Sandip Sukhtankar
,
Paul Niehaus
&
Karthik Muralidharan
1/1/2024
Global health (LMICs)
Working paper/mimeo, not published
Social Safety Nets, Women’s Economic Achievements and Agency
Amber Peterman
Jingying Wang
Kevin Kamto Sonke
Janina Steinert
3/5/2024
Dev. econ/gov. (LMICs)
R&R at ~top/decent journal
WP
Irrigation Strengthens Climate Resilience: Long-term Evidence from Mali using Satellites and Surveys
Ariel Benyishay
Rachel Sayers
Kunwar K. Singh
Seth Goodman
Madeleine Walker
Souleymane S. Traore
Mascha Rauschenbach
Martin Noltze
Global health (LMICs)
Published in a journal (unsure about the journal positioning)
3.05
Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? A nationwide field experiment on Facebook
Adena, Maja
Hager, Anselm
Attitudes, behaviors, psych, misinfo.
Published (journal)
Management Science
4.65
Adjusting for Scale-Use Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Well-Being
Daniel J. Benjamin
Kristen B. Cooper
Ori Heffetz
Miles S. Kimball
Jiannan Zhou
12/1/2023
Health (all countries)
Working paper/mimeo; not published in a peer-reviewed journal
WP
4.55
A review of GiveWell’s discount rate
Jenny Kudymowa
James Hu
Melanie Basnak
Tom Hird
Empirical methods, measurement
Working paper/mimeo, not published
WP
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