Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Going To Yale Makes Women Rich, But Only If They Marry—And Other Studies Women Should See

  1. The point is, the choices parents make in school choice environments have sometimes been criticized as revealing bad biases, but it may just be that economists have been measuring the wrong outcomes! More to the point for our present discussion, where a kid goes to high school turns out to matter a lot for his future life outcomes: and the best school for a student may not always be the “best school.” It may be a school that helps him avoid life choices he will come to regret, rather than the school that teaches him to value the test above all else.
  2. They were able to test how attending a given high school affected a girl’s odds of teen pregnancy, a boy’s odds of being arrested, their odds of being employed by age 35, and other outcomes that may matter more to parents than test scores.


http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/19/going-yale-makes-women-rich-marry-studies-women-see/

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