9. 99% of people, when left long blocks of time alone to work on something without anyone to be accountable to, will watch Netflix.
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20. People who have never made upper middle class jobs are unused to working for people that want them to succeed
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21. Lack of access to a computer almost kept some of our best students from being able to attend. Those aren’t expensive.
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22. Bank accounts are surprisingly hard to get if you don’t have much money
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23. One of the biggest limiting factor in many Americans getting an education is geography. They don’t live near a college/university and making that move would be tremendously expensive relative to their incomes
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Have you dug into the literature on this topic? Lots of smart people take selection bias into account in a quantitative approach, and it doesn't look good. See
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Ya, great book. I would love to see how awkward it is for Caplan in the faculty lounge now lol
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There is a way to measure this. Seth Stephen-Davidowitz tells the story in Everybody Lies. And the answer is 'not much'.
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Good episode of
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We know that the value added re. career outcomes etc is less for top unis than community colleges, and much less for unis than primary school interventions
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Going through old links... Bryan Caplan might know or have useful opinionshttp://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/02/bryan_caplan_on_1.html …
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We could. Look at the outcomes of those wait-listed because they did not fit the desired demographic mix.
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There is a technique called Propensity Score Matching that is designed to give us a good answer to this exact question. The main setback is the data availability, but worth looking into!
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