Bonus Episode: "An Oracle of the Pandemic"

Published: Sept. 27, 2021, 9 a.m.

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Brown University Economist Emily Oster returned to the news last week when her team launched their new "COVID-19 School Datahub." The Datahub seems to suggest that the most pressing consequence of the pandemic has been...shifts to remote learning. 

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We explain why Oster\'s data--and the claims she derives from it--is so troubling (and so lucrative).

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Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1taL0yOkdAv1GaLCVWW4lZ-Qb3BVewHYgU8FCrt0dPck/edit?usp=sharing 

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