Are We Just Going to Send More People Off to College?

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For some folks, this implies we just need to send more people to college. We recently had brain caplin on the programme talking about education as a signal rather than as a producer of human capital. I think it's a biger cultural phenomenon than just cheering a hous responsibilities. Equally, i think it has to do with what we thinks of is masculinity and what we think of as the appropriatee roll for men and women. And knoctk et a comment on whter that's good or bad.

Why are fewer men working over the last few decades? Is a universal basic income a good policy for coping with the loss of employment? Economist Edward Glaeser of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what Glaeser calls the war on work--the policy changes that have reduced employment among prime-aged men. Glaeser does not see the universal basic income as a viable solution to the decrease in work especially if technology ends up reducing employment opportunities more dramatically in the future. The conversation also includes a discussion of the role of cities and the reduction in geographic mobility in the United States.