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Bonus Episode: "An Oracle of the Pandemic"
Residential Spread
English - September 27, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 5.6 MBNews Commentary News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: "Georgia on my Mind"
Next Episode: Counting Cases
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.
We explain why Oster's data--and the claims she derives from it--is so troubling (and so lucrative).
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1taL0yOkdAv1GaLCVWW4lZ-Qb3BVewHYgU8FCrt0dPck/edit?usp=sharing