Aram Zucker-Scharff

American millennials are THE WORST IN THE WORLD at Technology. Also pretty terrible at understanding numbers and awful at reading. [PDF]

American millennials are THE WORST IN THE WORLD at Technology. Also pretty terrible at understanding numbers and awful at reading. [PDF]

What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?:

One of the factors that correlates most strongly to instability is a youth bulge in a population. The more unemployed young men ages 15 to 24, the more upheaval.

One study found that for every 1 percentage point increase in the share of the population aged 15 to 24, the risk of civil war increases by 4 percent.

That means that curbing birthrates tends to lead to stability, and that’s where educating girls comes in. You educate a boy, and he’ll have fewer children, but it’s a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family. One robust Nigeria study managed to tease out correlation from causation and found that for each additional year of primary school, a girl has 0.26 fewer children. So if we want to reduce the youth bulge a decade from now, educate girls today.

When will academic institutions learn that outsourcing their online learning services is always a mistake?