Are Ka Throughtel Vouchers Underperforming?

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Research on the 12 vouchers as a lot of people thought that they would substantially rate standardized test scores. And it's hard to see a big gain there. Most parents don't care about test scores when you gie em a choice. They aren't looking around for the school that will raise kids test scores the most. The main appointment is, despite all the education research, it seems like it's not very often actually used for any kind of education policy. What should we do? You'lli det definitely worth some experiments, right ando use standard social science random assignment to really learn something.

"No single paper is that good", says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read the entire literature in the field. And to do the kind of scholarship Bryan's work requires, you need to cover multiple fields. Only that way can you assemble a wide variety of evidence into useful knowledge.

But few scholars ever even try to reach the enlightened interdisciplinary plane. So how does he do it?

Tyler explores Bryan's approach, including how to avoid the autodidact's curse, why his favorite philosopher happens to be a former classmate, what Tolstoy has that science fiction lacks, the idea trap, most useful wrong beliefs, effective altruism, Larry David, what most economics papers miss about the return to education, and more.

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Recorded April 17th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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