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Emily Oster – COVID-19 Interview

Policy@McCombs

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The Politics of Opening Schools

Sally Kohn: I worry that if we open, this is just like a practical concern. Like if we open schools and then the first thing that happens is the first week, a bunch of people who work in the schools, go to the schools have COVID,. Then we will just shut everything down and then it will be shut down every place, right? She says she's worried about how parents are going to handle this. Kohn: Do you worry at all about the disparate, desperate impact that we're going to see between men and women in terms of participation, labor force and so on as a result of this? Yeah, absolutely. There's just no way around it

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