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The Parent Trap

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Impact of Interventions on Long Term Outcomes

There are so many factors that influence our life trajectory. How do you separate all these things out, or can you? Well, there's this growing ability to do this in social science which i think is really exciting. It comes from the big data revolution, which is giving us sort of better telescopes to see the impacts of different interventions up close. And then we also have this parallel revolution in our statistical methods called the credibility revolution - isolating causal impacts of specific childhood opportunities on kids long term outcomes.

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