zdgroff

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at Stanford University. Within effective altruism, I am interested in broad longtermism, long-term institutions and values, and animal welfare. In economics, my areas of interest include political economy, behavioral economics, and public economics.

Posts

How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper
by zdgroff @ 2023-11-02 | +274 | 0 comments
AGI Catastrophe and Takeover: Some Reference Class-Based Priors
by zdgroff @ 2023-05-24 | +103 | 0 comments
Call for Papers: The Economics of Animal Welfare, Stanford Institute for...
by zdgroff @ 2022-04-04 | +49 | 0 comments
Is there evidence that recommender systems are changing users' preferences?
by zdgroff @ 2021-04-12 | +60 | 0 comments
Two Nice Experiments on Democracy and Altruism
by zdgroff @ 2020-12-30 | +37 | 0 comments
How Much Does New Research Inform Us About Existential Climate Risk?
by zdgroff @ 2020-07-22 | +63 | 0 comments
Do Long-Lived Scientists Hold Back Their Disciplines?
by zdgroff @ 2019-08-12 | +13 | 0 comments
Who Supports Animal Rights?
by zdgroff @ 2019-07-29 | +34 | 0 comments
Want to Save the World? Enter the Priesthood
by zdgroff @ 2019-07-09 | +18 | 0 comments
How Much Do Wild Animals Suffer? A Foundational Result on the Question is Wrong.
by zdgroff @ 2019-06-24 | +84 | 0 comments
[Question] Pros/Cons of Donor-Advised Fund
by zdgroff @ 2019-04-22 | +13 | 0 comments
Be Careful About a Stubborn Attachment to Growth
by zdgroff @ 2018-12-20 | +7 | 0 comments
[Link] "Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy?"
by zdgroff @ 2018-12-17 | +19 | 0 comments
Should Effective Charities Prepare for a Recession?
by zdgroff @ 2018-11-29 | +28 | 0 comments
What I Learned from a Year Spent Studying How to Get Policymakers to Use...
by zdgroff @ 2018-09-04 | +32 | 0 comments
Updates Thread: How Have You Changed Your Mind This Year?
by zdgroff @ 2017-12-20 | +10 | 0 comments
The Hidden Cost of Shifting Away from Poverty
by zdgroff @ 2017-10-09 | +22 | 0 comments
Institutional Change in Animal Rights vs. Global Poverty
by zdgroff @ 2016-05-10 | +12 | 0 comments
The Poor Meat Investor Problem
by zdgroff @ 2016-04-21 | +11 | 0 comments
Announcing ImpactMatters: Auditing Charity Impact across Causes
by zdgroff @ 2015-12-11 | +9 | 0 comments
A Note on Framing Criticisms of Effective Altruism
by zdgroff @ 2015-07-24 | +2 | 0 comments
That UMD Extra Credit Question
by zdgroff @ 2015-07-13 | +1 | 0 comments
Collective Action and Individual Impact, Part II
by zdgroff @ 2015-06-19 | +5 | 0 comments
Collective Action and Individual Impact
by zdgroff @ 2015-05-28 | +2 | 0 comments