Behind the Analysis: Assessing Past Malaria Nets Grants by GiveWell

This is a new epi­sode of the GiveWell Con­ver­sa­tions pod­cast. You can listen to the epi­sode or read a sum­mary of the con­ver­sa­tion be­low.GiveWell’s re­search doesn’t end once we’ve made a grant. We eval­u­ate a sub­set of com­pleted grants, com­par­ing what we thought would hap­pen to what ac­tu­ally took place, then try to use what we learn to im­prove our fu­ture fund­ing de­ci­sions. Over the past year, we’ve for­mal­ized and ex­panded this work, pub­lish­ing com­pre­hen­sive “look­b...