Devon Fritz đ¸
Bio
EA Meta for 7 years!
COO of Ambitious Impact (previously Charity Entrepreneurship).
Co-Founder of High Impact Professionals. We enable working professionals to maximize their positive impact by supporting them in donating their time, skills and resources effectively.
Ex-CTO and MD of Germany for Founders Pledge. Big on promoting Effective Giving.
Originally from New York, living in Berlin.
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Yeah I think that is a good point although I don't know if I'd say 'significant differences' â the effect size here seems really small and also I'd expect since they don't control for income etc and just take the mean that potential gains in e.g. well-off moms are more than canceled out by worse-off moms who have a hard time making ends me, and I'd guess that EAs are in general more in the well-off category, although of course not exclusively.
Just anecdata-wise I don't know many moms in my bubble who'd say they were worse off - it could be that they are and social desirability bias is at play or it could be that like in these papers they are and the effect size is just so small they don't really feel it, I don't know.Â
Knowing you Jacintha, curious what you would say in your own N=1 case but would understand if you didn't want to post it on the forum!
Thanks Zoe - It is a good point as I think men's and women's views could differ here quite a bit.Â
My general take on my partner (can't prioritize asking right now, but it is a good prompt for another post in the series!) having discussed these things over time is she is way more satisfied with life in general than she was before kids. I think she'd endorse the productivity and leadership upgrades, but prob feels the sting of working fewer hours more.
It is worth noting the post is mostly about how this affects EAs, which she is not, so I might be a tighter reference class here, although I have met a lot of families and they do seem to have different takes by gender, so maybe she is the right reference class. I don't know! If you have specific questions I'd be happy to answer offline.
Very interesting @Kirsten - thank you for the tips. I'll have my publicist follow up with those leads.
I am a dad myself and have on my list to make posts on my Substack about insights from having kids and impact. I give advice to EAs about many things, but I've notice my takes on parenting lead to really long conversations and follow up in a way that makes me think it could be valuable to the community.Â
@Federico Speziali and I both originally looked into support for this cohort of folks, but I ultimately got more pessimistic on it for two reasons:
- There were fewer people doing E2G than I thought.
- Those who were doing E2G were giving less than I thought.
I came to the view that those E2Gers giving significant amounts (100K+ let's say) were an order of magnitude lower than I'd hoped (maybe 50 instead of 500) and also that they were already known to the community for the most part and already pretty much maximizing their impact.
There could be room for an org that tries to bring more folks like this into the fold, but I am a bit pessimistic that it would be successful, as many EAs purport to do E2G and give smallish sums, and if card-carrying EAs who are saying they do E2G aren't doing that much on average, I don't think those unfamiliar with EA would likely convert to high-giving E2Gers. They might learn about EA and then E2G and then take it up, and we already have a pipeline for that.
I should say I wouldn't want to dissuade others from working on this as despite what I said I think this is underexplored on the margin and could bear fruit with some cheap experiments, but I think it is important to relay my true take here as well, even if it is a bit negative.
Should also note that GWWC is looking into this a bit so they might have a take they want to add.
Thanks for this and for your grants database. I didn't know about it and it is very useful.
I'd be curious if you or anyone else reading this has more concrete ideas about how to improve the 'superstructure' as you call it.