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Published · transcript-backedMelissa Dell: recommendation
15 Jul 2020 Conversations with Tyler Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence
“I think, even short of air conditioning, which is very expensive, even just things like fans or having access to electricity, having more efficient building standards can make a big difference and is probably more realistic, at the same time, than getting air conditioning to everyone in sub-Saharan Africa now, which would be very, very costly.”
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- Melissa Dell
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- 15 Jul 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…So should foreign aid subsidize air conditioning? That becomes a tricky question. We think that there are potentially huge productivity effects of air conditioning. People have done some randomized control trials. But if you go and propose that, then the environmental people get very concerned because it’s bad for the environment. I think, even short of air conditioning, which is very expensive, even just things like fans or having access to electricity, having more efficient building standards can make a big difference and is probably more realistic, at the same time, than getting air conditioning to everyone in sub-Saharan Africa now, which would be very, very costly. In these poorer countries, do we see higher test scores in the cooler areas or the areas with more altitude? If we compare, say, Quito and Gayaquil or Lima and Cusco, whatever, there are comparisons you could make, right?…
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