
The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast )
Freakonomics Radio
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How Much Do Ten Years Matter?
Vancatesh: I'm interested in quitting for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that it's hard for me. But i also think it's just really, really hard the older you get, especially when you start identifying yourself with a job. We followed a sample of the draft class of two thousand and one and so that's about its ten years. And so we thought that would help us to understand what happens to these folks. Now this doesn't include the immigrants, because they came into the country and they didn't go through the draft to playball. These are just the people who were out of high school, or who were in college, and they
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