17/n Well, if you use the incorrect estimates from Mazumder/Lleras-Muney, you get an average of a 45% reduction in RELATIVE RISK OF DEATH AT EVERY AGE per year of schooling This is hilariously implausiblepic.twitter.com/Mt8CSd9t4T
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28/n Two months after the initial emails, and over a month after we submitted the comment, we have this correction published Unfortunately, the study has already had an enormous impact, and changed lives across the world
29/n You will probably be interested @stephaniemlee @MelissaLDavey @apsmunro @DrZoeHyde @devisridhar @DFisman
30/n Overall, what we have is a paper where the mathematically impossible results have been removed, but is still flawed in numerous ways and useless as evidence for decision-making
31/n The sad fact is that the approach the authors took, if implemented correctly, probably would not have found that school closures cost more YLL than COVID-19
32/n This DOESN'T MEAN that school closures are a good thing, necessarily, but YLL is a measure inherently geared towards measuring people who have already died, and it's just not likely that closing schools has cost so much of this metric
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