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The Importance of Trade in Transitions
Economists will tell you there are trillions of dollars to be had out there. Now you could have it in those seven domains, five years down the road. How would you strategize towards that? So we had students do this for 90 minutes when they first came into their orientation session before they went to trade school or night. And we decreased the dropout rate 50% and so for a $10 intervention,. In other studies, we'd increase the GPA 35%. But what was really cool was that the biggest increases were among the most disaffected populations. The biggest effect was for minority men who didn't have well formulated plans about what they were going to college for.