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Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital

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The Case for Subsidizing Education

The speakers discuss the issue of subsidizing education and argue that it may not be socially valuable for everyone to receive more education. They explain that increasing the level of education creates a negative externality by raising job requirements and that the return on education is not high for marginal students.

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