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“[…] it is surprising and disturbing that, at a time when the premium for skills has increased and the return to graduating high school has risen, the high school dropout rate in America is increasing.
Category: education
Econlinks for 18-02-’08
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An excellent (& extensive) interview with Susan Athey, the most recent winner of the John Bates Clark medal. Here’s one of the best parts:
Finding the applications that resonate with the students or the population in general and then showing them how a little bit of structured thinking can substantially improve their understanding — I think that’s where you get the power of economics.
Time to study: MIT Open Courseware
It is old news by now, but for those of you who did not know (and especially for all students among you, undergraduates and graduates alike), MIT made available online extensive material for no less than 1800 courses from their curriculum.
→ Read more Beware the Euronomics. Plus some further thoughts on the economics curricula in Romania and The Netherlands
Retain at least the conclusion of this excellent article (applying, unfortunately, well beyond just France and Germany, within EU or Europe in general), which draws attention to the enormous, though often neglected*, importance of (high) school economics education, with emphasis on the (very real) risks of learning absolute nonsense from state-sponsored economics courses.
→ Read more Mioritic achievements of bad renown. And their primary causes.
→ Read moreNo one, it turns out, does Internet auction fraud like the Romanians. […]when it comes to online auctions, particularly for big-ticket items such as cars that can yield $5,000 a scam, Romanians own the game.