Stop infantilizing young adults.
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At this point, this is just an archive for information related to infantilization and deinfantilization of young adults including teens.
Hopefully, some time in future I will start creating my own content.
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A large proportion of students do not learn much past the eigth grade. That is a lot of wasted time.
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"I find that while the reform in England and Wales led to a 6−7 percent increase in hourly wages per additional year of compulsory schooling, the impact of the change to French law was close to zero."
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"We find sizeable returns to academic qualifications – increasing the probability of employment by 40% points – and our results suggest that qualifications drive most of the returns to education."
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"However, because the first set of “high stakes” exams are taken in the UK at age 16, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as schooling length."
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Yes, I think that the difference between mid-late teens and the older people is pretty modest and it would be even smaller if we didn't artificially exaggerate it.
The age of consent in most places ia already something like 15 or 16, and I mostly focus on non-sexual topics.
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Pretty sure the "increased well being" is non-causal because we have causal evidence that school increases suicides :
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School makes kids commit suicide. Whenever kids are in school, they commit suicide. When you cancel school (snow days, COVID, summer, holidays), they stop committing so much suicide. School is a suicide-generating institution. nber.org/papers/w30795
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School should be much shorter, actually. We can't have young people sitting on their ass producing nothing for society until they are 23 or 25 in a rapidly aging population. Beyond math and literacy almost everything you learn in school is useless.
Extending school day from 4.5 hours to 8 hours had almost no impact on test scores in Mexico 🤣 Imagine almost doubling school day with almost no result and not shortening the day back 🤣 This is how baseless some political decisions are.
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I hate conservatives for giving homeschooling a bad reputation. Initially, the modern homeschooling movement was socially progressive, and its goal was to give children more freedom, until the cons decided that they had to appropriate it.
Raising school leaving age from 16 to 18 in Hungary didn't have any impact on w.ployment or average wage
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The original article about decline in adult activities in American teens.
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