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Sanjay Clean cookstoves may be competitive with GiveWell-recommended charities online This is a very quick, rough model of the cost-effectiveness of promoting clean cookstoves in the developing world. It suggests that if a clean cookstove intervention is successful, it may have roughly the same ballpark of cost-effectiveness as a GiveWell-recommended charity; and that C.90% of the impact comes from directly saving lives, in a model which reflected saving lives and climate change impact.

Clean cookstoves may be competitive with GiveWell-recommended charities

Sanjay

Effective Altruism Forum, February 9, 2020

Abstract

This is a very quick, rough model of the cost-effectiveness of promoting clean cookstoves in the developing world. It suggests that if a clean cookstove intervention is successful, it may have roughly the same ballpark of cost-effectiveness as a GiveWell-recommended charity; and that C.90% of the impact comes from directly saving lives, in a model which reflected saving lives and climate change impact.

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