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Are School Counselors an Effective Education Input?
By helping even a few children in the classroom, school counselors could potentially induce widespread academic gains.
We exploit within-school variation in counselors and find that one additional counselor reduces student misbehavior and increases boys’ academic achievement by over one percentile point. These effects compare favorably with those of increased teacher quality and smaller class sizes.
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This paper was originally published by Economic Letters
Economic Dynamism

The Wine and Commerce Symposium
The Western tradition’s great thinkers have long recognized wine as a symbol for the beguilement of reason. But if wine warps reason, they recognized how it can also enable reliable reason in our analysis of regimes.

Social Mobility Wins
When people live within an environment offering good jobs, good education, social networks, and a culture of self-improvement and hard work, they experience progress in a way that undercuts the philosophical rationale that socialists need to justify the policies they advocate.




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