just listened to a podcast where glenn loury interviews james heckman (!!!) about racial economic outcome differences
specifically around iq vs (other things)
if you're a patron I'd recommend listening, else wait until it drops on @bloggingheads in a few days
got me thinking
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very quickly this seems to run into horrific state interventions and speaking of that let me point you to the track record of the state on surrogate childrearinghttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1328922229438959616?s=19 …
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anyway i ended up less optimistic about solving achievement gaps than i was when I started
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programs that enable said mothers to more fully realize their mothering potential presumably? eg anti-poverty, childcare, healthcare & family planning... there will be the usual back & forth about dependency traps but i don't think this framing implies eigenpoll-style solutions
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iirc those often worked badly in the old days although such were before my time see welfare reform (1994?), status pre/post
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one possible policy measure is to end the drug war so that the kids get a chance to grow up around adult men, preferably their fathers the rest is probably not a matter of policy, which is fine, not every problem in the world is amenable to policy
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Not to get all Eliezer on main, but if this is true the first important thing is to believe it's true, and have all the relevant actors believe so. Stop pursuing policies that won't impact this, stop promoting narratives to the contrary, etc.
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If that work is undervalued maybe, I don’t know, give them cash?
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incentivize people at lowest incomes to not have kids. (already in place for most incomes, with more to lose)
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