Policy Matters: What makes a good education? How does education affect responses to a health crisis?
b'In this episode of Policy Matters, hosts Matt Dickson and Franz Buscha talk to Arnaud Chevalier, Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London.\\n\\nFranz and Matt start by asking Arnaud about several of his projects examining how parents influence their children\\u2019s educational attainment, and in particular why the fall of the Berlin wall led to a dip in school results. The discussion then moves on to higher education, Arnaud explaining how the ethnic and linguistic mix in a classroom impacts attainment, with wider implications for managing migration. \\n\\nFinally, Franz and Matt talk to Arnaud about his work on the MMR vaccine crisis of the late 1990s and how education impacted the responses to public health information \\u2013 very pertinent in the current worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In the midst of it all we hear Franz\\u2019s musings on a possible alternative life as a farmer\\u2026'