Perhaps someone would want to champion this and get EA ~Meta or EA community funds to cover the cost of their time and tech in maintaining this? As @Midtermist12 says, I think the investment would be worth it, both for the use of this info itself, and for the knock-on effects for future collaboration. 

This seems potentially important for initiatives like @Brad West's Profit For Good initiative.  
A warm list for this ... Earning to give/EA people in relevant businesses. 

 

Nice. 

By the way how does this compare to the results of "Monetary incentives increase COVID-19 vaccinations" (Campos-Mercade et al)? Seems like the results here involved a similar sized incentive, but had larger effects?

Valuing vaccination

Using money as a motivation for the public to get vaccinated is controversial and has had mixed results in studies, few of which have been randomized trials. To test the effect of money as an incentive to obtain a vaccine, Campos-Mercade et al. set up a study in Sweden in 2021, when various age groups were first made eligible to receive the severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 vaccine (see the Perspective by Jecker). The effect of a small cash reward, around US $24, was compared with the effect of several behavioral nudges. The outcome of this preregistered, randomized clinical trial was that money had the power to increase participation by about 4 percentage points. Nudging and reminding didn’t seem to be deleterious and even had a small positive effect. Of course, the question of whether it is ethical to pay people to be vaccinated like this needs to be addressed. —CA

Abstract

The stalling of COVID-19 vaccination rates threatens public health. To increase vaccination rates, governments across the world are considering the use of monetary incentives. Here we present evidence about the effect of guaranteed payments on COVID-19 vaccination uptake. We ran a large preregistered randomized controlled trial (with 8286 participants) in Sweden and linked the data to population-wide administrative vaccination records. We found that modest monetary payments of 24 US dollars (200 Swedish kronor) increased vaccination rates by 4.2 percentage points (P = 0.005), from a baseline rate of 71.6%. By contrast, behavioral nudges increased stated intentions to become vaccinated but had only small and not statistically significant impacts on vaccination rates. The results highlight the potential of modest monetary incentives to raise vaccination rates.

https://youtu.be/DxiGVgK08UU?feature=shared Is another talk on the same theme/initiative correct?

Helpful but to disambiguat, that is a directory of professionals who want to do impactful work.

I am also looking to favour “earning to give” professionals willing to do non-impactful work.

Ala my “corporate bake sale” post and @Brad West Introducing the Profit for Good Blog: Transforming Business for Charity 

Eg I was looking for EA/earning to give lawyers and accountants to hire and had trouble finding them

That’s fair. But maybe hold onto the previous database if possible, in case the signup for this one is low and it needs a kickstart?

See the full protocol for this project in our knowledge base here.

28 Sep 2024 – fixed above link and link in post.

Linking an Unjournal.org evaluation (package here) of one of the papers mentioned in this article.

Akram et al. (2014) subsidized transport in rural villages in Bangladesh, which increased the proportion of households sending a migrant to a city by 30 percentage points.

For example, an RCT by Akram et al. (2014)[21] provided transport subsidies to treated villages in rural Bangladesh, which increased the proportion of households sending a migrant to a city by 30 percentage points (which persisted in follow-up years). While the individuals who moved saw benefits, so did those that remained, as agricultural wages in the treated villages increased by roughly 4-6 percent as more laborers left for the city[21]. By boosting benefits for non-movers, internal migration increases its impacts even further and bolsters the cost-effectiveness calculations.

From our evaluation manager's discussion:

Evidence Action shut down the charity No Lean Season (the precise intervention in this paper) partly because of "Mixed evidence of impact" (see GiveWell's report here).  But the decision was also partly due to particular problems (allegations of fraud and mismanagement by the implementing partner. Thus, we suspected there may still be a strong case that this could be a cost-effective intervention. The present paper reported substantial positive effects, and was heavily cited. Thus we believed it deserved more careful evaluation, and if there were substantial flaws, these should be publicly shared. 

[We only provided one evaluation]... Although we normally seek two or more strong evaluations, we struggled to find evaluators who could provide informed constructive criticism and appraisal. We might have persisted further, however…

After further consultation with an applied researcher in this area, we were advised that the GiveWell’s decision was more about issues having to do with the failure of the program to scale up, rather than its earlier performance as considered in the paper evaluated here. Follow-on work thus seems more relevant for further evaluation, such as “Delegation Risk and Implementation at Scale: Evidence from a Migration Loan Program in Bangladesh” (Mitchell et al, 2023) 

Footnote: Mobarak also wrote a nontechnical comment about the difficulties of scaling up interventions (largely based on his experience here).

Quick update on this:

The Airtable is still up. @Joe Rogero took it over and "it still forms the basis for the Alignment Ecosystem Development site, but the EA side of things is probably obsolete by now."

If someone wants to take over the 'EA side' of this project, perhaps work with me on it, perhaps moving it to Coda.io, let me know.  

Also, we should probably signal boost this a bit so others don't think 'someone else is doing it' (there was some post about 'don't fail quietly' I tried to link here but I can't find it).