Joshua Angrist: Nobel Prize Conversations
Nobel Prize Conversations
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Is the Draft a Tax on Volunteers?
I would much rather you write a story about my work, meaning a professional journalist say, than me writing op-ed and try to get that on the editorial page of some major outlets. I don't mind that, but it's not my comparative advantage. So when you come up with data that is relevant for policy, that requires a whole different set of skills to try and make use of that. And okay, last question then. A piece of data like that, like you're finding about the effects of the draft, is politically very sensitive. I would say it's relevant. It's relevant for policy.
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