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01 / belief
“From a justice perspective and also from the perspective of trying to think about ultimately how might you change something like that. At that age, I think I was too young to put those pieces together.”
02 / belief
“As I was saying earlier, while experience is one predictor of teachers’ impacts, in a way a much more important predictor are these value-added or other types of measures of performance. And I think tying pay or bonuses or efforts to retain teachers to performance measures — whether they’re test-score-based, value-added measures, or principal ratings or something else — is quite sensible.”
03 / belief
“One, we find that areas with more concentrated poverty — take the city of Baltimore, for example — we find very poor outcomes for boys in particular, relative to girls, and we think that that has to do with crime, and getting involved in gangs, and so forth — things that girls are less likely to do.”
04 / belief
“I think most westerners’ perception of India is based on North India: Taj Mahal, Delhi, Agra, so forth.”
05 / belief
“I know other people have had different experiences, but to me that’s the main thing I think of.”
06 / belief
“I learned through that experience that while science was fascinating and extremely important, I was more excited about the statistical aspects of that work rather than the staining itself or the pipetting or the microscopy.”
07 / belief
“I think Bob correctly points out that there are lots of trends going in a direction that might have led you to think that this would be getting worse over time.”
08 / belief
“I think the existence of dividends itself is a bit of a puzzle, and our paper, which shows that changes in tax rates affect the amount of dividends firms pay out, doesn’t fully address that puzzle.”
09 / belief
“I think the other thing that’s extremely important is, we spend a lot of time on trying to achieve clarity.”
10 / belief
“I think that kind of mechanism is actually extremely important in terms of what children choose to do.”
11 / belief
“What about it speaks to me? I think the combination of Eastern and Western influences on music.”
12 / belief
“At some abstract level, I think that logic has to be right, that eventually, in order to raise the level of education beyond some point, we’re going to have to spend more and more on that, but I don’t think we’re close enough empirically to such a point that that is really a critical consideration at the moment.”
13 / belief
“I think some of the most important questions in economics and social science have not yet been fully answered, and the recent availability of big data of various types allows us, for the first time, to tackle those classic questions.”