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Esther Duflo

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“I listen to Bach almost every morning when I’m walking, in particular to Bach cantatas.”

Conversations with Tyler · 18 Dec 2019

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Because I’ll tell you exactly why: the current PISA and TIMSS results show France exactly at the median in terms of the scores, but with a lot of heterogeneity, with excellent results at the top and really bad results at the bottom.

“Because I’ll tell you exactly why: the current PISA and TIMSS results show France exactly at the median in terms of the scores, but with a lot of heterogeneity, with excellent results at the top and really bad results at the bottom.”
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There’s actually much less, partly also due to regulations and less to individual effort response because they are thinking they are going to be taxed away.

“There’s actually much less, partly also due to regulations and less to individual effort response because they are thinking they are going to be taxed away.”
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The point is that the response to financial incentives is less than what typically we assume it is, both in terms of people seem to be pretty inelastic to taxes at all levels of income from the studies we have.

“The point is that the response to financial incentives is less than what typically we assume it is, both in terms of people seem to be pretty inelastic to taxes at all levels of income from the studies we have.”
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Esther Duflo
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To tell you the truth, even if it didn’t, it seems it’s not a big bet to invest in education anyway because worse comes to worst, people would be educated, which seems to be a good end in itself.

“To tell you the truth, even if it didn’t, it seems it’s not a big bet to invest in education anyway because worse comes to worst, people would be educated, which seems to be a good end in itself.”
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Esther Duflo
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